Education Leader Receives Honorary Degree from KPU

Education leader receives honorary degree from KPU

Simon Fraser University President and Vice-Chancellor Andrew Petter has been granted an honorary degree by Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Petter, who will complete a ten-year presidential term at SFU this summer, has been a pioneer in education throughout his career. He guided SFU’s development as an “engaged university,” enlarging its presence in the City of Surrey, and before that helped to establish a graduate law program and Indigenous initiatives while dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria. “In the region south of the Fraser River, Andrew has spent a lot of time understanding the community and building the programming and impact at SFU Surrey,” says KPU President and Vice-Chancellor Dr. Alan Davis. “While SFU is to some degree a competitor to KPU, Andrew has always been collaborative and any success he gains only serves to inspire us and lift our game.” Covid-19 precautions prevented KPU holding a formal convocation ceremony in the first week of June so the honorary degree was announced in a video tribute to the Spring Class of 2020. “I am hugely honoured to receive this recognition from Kwantlen Polytechnic University,” says Petter. “SFU and KPU share deep commitments as community builders, and it has been my huge privilege over the past decade to work with KPU to demonstrate the capacities of our two institutions to enhance the economic and social well-being of Surrey and surrounding communities.” Petter pursued undergraduate studies at the former Notre Dame University in Nelson, before earning his Bachelor of Laws from the University of Victoria and receiving the Law Society of BC Gold Medal. He subsequently earned a Master of Law with first-class honours from Cambridge University. He taught at the University of Victoria for five years before being elected to the provincial legislature as MLA for Saanich South in 1991. His decade in politics included numerous cabinet portfolios, including Minister of Advanced Education, Training and Technology from 1998 to 2000, during which time he broke ground on TechBC, subsequently to become SFU’s Surrey campus. In 2001, Petter returned to academia and became Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria. During his tenure, the Faculty created an interdisciplinary graduate law program and worked with northern partners to deliver the Akitsiraq Law School for Inuit students in Nunavut. His academic work has focused on constitutional law and public policy, including Canadian federalism and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Petter became President of Simon Fraser University in 2010 and expanded the university’s position within its communities. In Surrey, the construction of SFU’s Sustainable Energy Engineering Building created a physical legacy, but his impact has been felt more broadly in the community through innovative new programs and initiatives. “While Andrew firmly and strategically positioned SFU Surrey as a key driver in this city, he was always mindful and respectful of KPU, and its position as the teaching-intensive university for the South Fraser Region,” says Marlyn Graziano, KPU’s Vice- President, External Affairs. “Andrew and his senior leadership team collaborated frequently with KPU not just on program development but on advocacy for the post-secondary sector in the region.” Petter was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2018 for his commitment and leadership in advancing university-community engagement and higher education throughout the country.

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President and Vice Chancellor Report...... 2

Associate Vice President, Human Resources ...... 3

Office of the Vice President, Finance & Administration ...... 5

Office of the Provost & Vice President, Academic ...... 12

Office of the Vice President, Students ...... 47

Office of the Vice President, External Affairs ...... 53

Office of Associate Vice President, Planning and Accountability ...... 72

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KPU presents Bill Wright with Honorary Degree

Kwantlen Polytechnic University is presenting KPU Foundation Board of Directors member Bill Wright with an Honorary Degree for his voluntary service.

Wright, a retired lawyer who focused his practice on the credit union and co-operative system, has volunteered on the KPU Foundation for nearly two decades. He is passionate about education and creating quality, lifelong learning opportunities for KPU students.

“In these astonishing times of COVID-19, when formal convocation ceremonies are not possible, I truly appreciate the honour of being conferred an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree is in the recognition, not the ceremony,” says Wright.

“We are proud to give this deserving award to Bill,” says Dr. Alan Davis, president and vice-chancellor of KPU. “His passion for education is evident in his service to the KPU Foundation and especially the students at KPU, as he continues to open access to lifelong learning opportunities.”

After graduating from the University of British Columbia in 1960, Wright began his law career with Davis and Company and moved up to become managing partner, over a 30-year period where the law firm grew from 20 lawyers to 100.

With his specialized knowledge of credit union operations, Wright worked with BC Central Credit Union, now known as Central 1, to develop it into an integrated financial facility serving the entire credit union system, including entry into the European financial market. In 1980 the World Council of Credit Unions asked him to prepare a report assisting the Australian credit union movement development on a national scale. “He frequently volunteers to sit on the Scholarship and Awards After developing an interest in affordable housing and how Selection Committee and takes this responsibility seriously as housing co-operatives can play a role, Wright assisted in the he reads each application and student story to ensure that the development and construction of the first housing co- most qualified students receive their award.” operative in B.C. and served as a national director of the Co- operative Housing Federation of Canada. He has volunteered For the graduating students, Wright has this piece of advice: and continues to volunteer with many non-profit organizations “Earn with your head, spend from your heart!” around Metro Vancouver, and in the Downtown Eastside. Covid-19 precautions prevented KPU holding a formal “Looking back on my career I am amazed at and grateful for convocation ceremony in the first week of June so the the diversity of opportunities my law practice provided; honorary degree was announced in a video tribute to the challenges, satisfaction and the privilege of knowing so many Spring Class of 2020. outstanding people,” he adds.

“KPU is lucky to have Bill as part of its community. He is genuinely interested in the success and education of students,” says Steve Lewarne, executive director of Advancement at KPU.

1 President and Vice Chancellor Report

Internally, the President’s Diversity and Equity Committee KPU continues to operate almost entirely remotely, and the continued its work and 2 related initiatives also progressed: Fall semester is underway with a good level of enrollments. Of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan (led by Human the 1900 class sections being offered, about 75 will include Resources) and a proposal for EDI Awards at KPU is on its way safe, on-campus, hands-on experiences in labs, shops and the Senate Tributes committee. studios. KPU also established the Task Force on Antiracism, led by Dr The big question was how many new international students Asma Sayed (recently appointed as Canada Research Chair at who we were expecting to arrive would defer to a later KPU) which will be a catalyst for action at KPU over the next 18 semester. At the Board meeting we will be able to update you months.: in the final numbers and give some idea of the financial impact for 20/21. On July 23rd I was able to take a workshop with the Canadian Center for Diversity and Inclusion on “Inclusive leadership for KPU International has done good work in surveying students to an anti-racist workplace”. determine where they are at in their plans to come to KPU and has developed plans to ensure that those who do make it can We have been working on the virtual installation of our new self-isolate as required. This matter concerns all post- Chancellor in late October, followed soon after by the 2020 secondary institutions and there is plenty of engagement virtual convocation that will officially confer credentials on among them and with the government about planning for about 3000 graduates and award 2 honorary degrees. These various scenarios for this year and next. broadcast events are not to be missed. Many of us were here all summer as we dealt with numerous I was pleased to help orient 4 new Board members in late updates to health and safety regulations and other matters August/ early September, and we all worked to on-board Tara that have emerged during this extraordinary time. We did an Clowes, our new Vice President of Finance and Administration extensive survey of students during this time to determine who joined us remotely on August 10th. what is working and not working for them in these remote methodologies in teaching and services. Senate and its standing committees have begun their work for the new academic year under the tireless leadership of the I am very grateful to the faculty and staff for their creativity Vice Chair, Dr. David Burns. and resilience, and to my colleagues in administration who have adapted to remote operations and kept all our core External meetings with our local political leaders have been activities going. It has truly been a team effort among those limited but I was able to join MP Tamara Jansen (Cloverdale- working remotely and on campus in all departments and Langley City) who visited KPU Tech on July 28. She is a member faculties. of the federal Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic and was keen to see the safety protocols we have in place for I have tried to maintain engagement through weekly video Trades programs. broadcasts and so far the feedback has been positive. This will be increasingly important as we face the challenges that the On September 16th I attended the first meeting of the steering pandemic continues to present to us. committee for the Building & Supporting Surrey Employer Capacity to Respond to COVID-19 Workforce Needs Project, For my own work, many of the regular operational and sector hosted by the Surrey Board of Trade. meetings continued throughout the summer with activity with AEST (and regular calls hosted by the Deputy Minister), Colleges and Institutes Canada, Polytechnics Canada, Universities Canada, the BC Association of Institutes and Universities, The Post-Secondary Employers Association and BCNet.

2 Associate Vice President, Human Resources

PEOPLE FIRST CULTURE: Organizational Development Employee Engagement Employee Workshops  As the majority of employees are continuing to work  Human Resources has invited all KPU employees to remotely, the employee engagement work groups have register for one or more upcoming online workshops shifted focus and are looking at short-term actions to help scheduled to take place this fall and into winter 2021. colleagues stay connected. The work groups have put  A variety of options are available on topics such as mental forward several recommendations that focus on two main health (e.g., Building Resilience; Coping with Change; themes: appreciation and virtual activities to help Increasing our Understanding of Mental Health in the employees stay connected. Workplace; Mindfulness and Mitigating the Stress  The work groups will be introducing KPU Kudos, a fillable Response; and Anxiety, Depression and COVID-19), online tool designed by KPU’s Marketing department that leadership (e.g., Essential Skills for Managers; Leading High employees can use to express their gratitude and Performance Teams; and Conflict Resolution for appreciation for each other. The work groups also made a Managers) and more. recommendation to KPU’s President to share a video Equity, Diversity and Inclusion message expressing appreciation for employees who have been hard at work keeping the campuses open which has  Human Resources, on behalf of the Equity, Diversity, and since gone out. Inclusion (EDI) Steering Committee, will be engaging with an external EDI consultant for expert help in designing and  In addition, the work groups will be launching KPU Engage implementing a diversity and inclusion survey to collect Virtual Happy Breaks to the KPU community this October. quantitative and qualitative data including demographic These happy breaks will include a variety of online information and feelings of inclusion. Establishing baseline activities that provide a fun way for colleagues to virtually metrics is the first step of an EDI Framework which seeks connect and get to know one another better. The to increase workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion at activities to choose from will be available through a new KPU, strengthen awareness and understanding of EDI online calendar and will include a variety of social events, among employees, and address systemic barriers to full health and wellness events, and club events. participation in the University community. PEOPLE SERVICES Compensation  The transition of all excluded administrative employees to the new terms and conditions is complete. An analysis of salaries in relation to the control point will commence now that all employees are on the new terms.  On July 1st, KPU provided the opportunity for merit increases for eligible excluded administrative employees. HR Policies TALENT MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT:  The HR policy review work plan is complete. As most HR policies are scheduled for revision, the work plan spans Senior Talent Acquisition over a four-year period. Searches completed and successful candidates:  Our first priority is the revision of KPU’s Accommodation  Associate Vice President, Academic - David Florkowski policy. A consultant has been retained and work has  Vice President, Finance and Administration- Tara Clowes begun on updating this policy. Searches underway: Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS)  Associate Dean, Faculty of Science and Horticulture  Associate Dean, School of Business  The configuration of the new Applicant Tracking System  Dean, Faculty of Health has moved into its second phase, which is the  Executive Director, Facilities configuration of the onboarding module. We are working  Executive Director, Finance on developing training materials, onboarding documents, a communication strategy, and a plan to migrate to the go -live system.

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 Significant progress has been made towards digitizing PEOPLE RELATIONS employee files. The configuration of the system has been finalized and the next steps involve system set-up.  The Employer has reached an agreement with both the KFA and BCGEU bargaining committees. Both agreements  Training sessions as part of the Banner revitalization were ratified in July by their respective membership, KPU project are complete. We are continuing to work on Board, and the PSEA Board, and are now in effect. optimizing Banner for our needs.  The pandemic has provided an opportunity for the People Health and Benefits Relations team to step forward and support departments  Our Health and Benefits team is regularly updating with navigating the new remote environment. The resources for employees on mental health and wellness Business Partners have been helping leaders by awareness and support. Communication regarding these recognizing the cause and effect of economic uncertainty resources and other available workshops is distributed on on employees and the shift of employee priorities towards a monthly basis. family health and dependent care challenges. We have promoted flexible work options for those employees who Occupational Health & Safety are balancing work and family care responsibilities.  The Occupational Health and Safety team is continuing to  Our main role has been to support business continuity and review and approve Departmental Return to Campus maintain stability during these turbulent times. The team Safety Plans and Program/Course Health and Safety Forms has increased communications, ensuring that all for those departments and courses that need to be onsite communication is consistent, coordinated, timely, and during this time. appropriate. We have aligned recruitment and retention  The development of Remote Working Guidelines and efforts, and leveraged any downtime by supporting our Safety checklists is underway and will be distributed to all client groups with planning and executing professional employees who are working remotely. development activities.

KPU Partners with NEC to provide students with degree opportunities

Students studying Indigenous land stewardship at the Native Education College (NEC) in Vancouver can now transfer their certificate into the Horticulture Urban Ecosystems bachelor’s degree at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. The new partnership agreement will allow students to count the Indigenous Land Stewardship certificate from the Vancouver-based NEC towards the KPU degree. “The need for new leaders to build a better, greener world has never been more urgent. Students at NEC who want to expand their knowledge base and skillset in land stewardship now have a fantastic opportunity with this partnership,” says David Tracey, instructor and coordinator at NEC. “We felt the strong synergies between the Indigenous Land Stewardship program at NEC and the Horticulture Urban Ecosystems program at KPU were worth connecting,” says Dr. Steve Cardwell, KPU’s vice president, students. “We’re proud to partner with the NEC to assist their students in obtaining degrees that will help them maintain ecosystem health and build resilience for their communities.” “Students from the Indigenous land stewardship program will benefit greatly from the facilities and resources of KPU’s Department of Horticulture,” says Dr. Kathy Dunster, an instructor in the Horticulture Urban Ecosystems program. “From greenhouses to a rooftop research garden and the Logan Creek floodplain forest and salmon stream post-colonial ecosystem repair project, we have many opportunities on our Langley campus for hands-on experiential education,” she says. Dunster says the agreement supports the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, including eliminating poverty and hunger, equal access to education and clean water, protecting all life on land and finding decent work. “A key sustainable development goal is creating partnerships to achieve all the goals,” she says. “This partnership between NEC and KPU will strengthen our commitment to Indigenous people and their rights to social and environmental justice, which includes the scientific and Indigenous knowledge to achieve food sovereignty, and land and water protection.” To learn more about the academic programs visit: http://www.necvancouver.org/programs/humanities-social-sciences/indigenous-land-stewardship-certificate https://calendar.kpu.ca/programs-az/science-horticulture/urban-ecosystems/

4 Office of the Vice President, Finance & Administration

FINANCIAL SERVICES General/Initiatives FINANCIAL SERVICES:  The 2019/20 KPU Foundation Audited Financial Statements were presented to the Finance Audit Committee on July 15, Staffing 2020. KPMG had issued a clean audit report which is  Financial Services would like to welcome two of their indicative of the efforts, diligence, and hard work of the newest additions, Kristine Kidd and Anan Islam, to the Financial Services team members coupled with the Office of department. Advancement. These statements were presented at the KPU Foundation AGM on September 8, 2020.  Kristine joined KPU on July 22, 2020, from Café Artigiano where she spent 3 years working as the Vice  The Financial Services team has successfully met its first President, Finance. Prior to that, she spent 9 years at quarter Ministry related deadlines (Q1 Appendix C, and Q1 MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates working as the Forecast) as of July 2020. In addition, the team has Senior Manager, Treasury, and Assistant Treasurer. completed KPU’s annual Statement of Financial Information Kristine in joining KPU on a -1 year contract term to back Report (SOFI) for the Board’s review and approval. Financial fill the Manager, Budget & Planning role. She will be Services will transition its efforts to the upcoming second assisting with the budget & forecasting function within quarter Ministry deadlines. Financial Services.  The Financial Services team is also working on finalizing the  Anan joined KPU on July 6, 2020, from KPMG where she annual Charitable Return, T3010, required by the Canada spent 4 years working her way up to a Senior Revenue Agency. Accountant in the audit field. She has worked on KPU’s  The preparation of the 2021/2022 budget is well underway; audit file during her time with KPMG and brings a Financial Services have commenced working with Senior strong analytical mind set to the Finance team. Anan Executive in coordinating discussions with divisional units will be working in the Budget and Reporting function as an Accountant.

Tara Clowes appointed KPU’s Vice President, Finance

A former executive director in the Finance department of the Northwest Territories government will join Kwantlen Polytechnic University as vice president, finance, on August 10. Tara Clowes brings significant experience in strategic leadership positions, including roles with responsibility for human resources management, procurement, budget, project, contractor and asset management Clowes spent 15 years in the Northwest Territories, first in professional accounting practice and then as the director, finance and administration, in the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation, where she provided strategic direction over the corporation’s financial and administrative functions. Later, as executive director of financial and employee shared services in the Finance department of the Government of Northwest Territories, Clowes provided leadership and drove strategic change for the key central services agency in a multi-cultural unionized environment. Clowes moved into the post-secondary sector in July 2019, serving as manager, budgets and financial planning, at Vancouver Island University. In addition to budget development and planning, her work focused on the preparation of multi-year forecasts and models. She prepared financial projections, costing and analysis to support decision-making, and she identified the financial impacts of operational changes and new programs and initiatives. Raised in Nova Scotia, Clowes attained a masters of business administration degree with a major in international business at Dalhousie University, where she also gained a bachelor of commerce with a major in accounting. She is a chartered professional accountant and currently completing her doctorate of business administration at Athabasca University. 5 Finance & Administration cont’d

on potential budget reallocations (as necessary). In Collective Agreements Ratified and resulting Retro-Pay addition, Financial Services has been working closely with the Office of Planning and Accountability in obtaining  Both Collective Agreements (CAs) were ratified in July and budgeted tuition revenue for the upcoming fiscal year. have retroactive pay back owing going back to 2019.  The Financial Operations team has been working with the Although the CAs have been ratified, KPU has not been team at Flywire to setup a new international payables able to enter the new wage information into Banner as solution which would help KPU send payments/refunds to work is still underway between LR, HRIS, PSEA, and the its international agents and students. This new initiative unions to finalize and approve the new wage grids. Work looks to (1) increase efficiencies in the refund/payment is underway in HR to determine how to most efficiently process, (2) reduce KPU’s expenditures pertaining to wire and effectively have then new wage rates into Banner. transfers, (3) expand the number of countries and Once the new wage rates are in Banner, the retroactive currencies for which such transactions can occur. period will end and Payroll can start work on calculating retro pay. Calculation and payment of retro-pay will take  Lastly, Financial Services has kicked off the month of a few pay-periods to complete once the wage grids are in September training sessions across the University for the the system. following topics: Banner Digital Transformation – Banner HR  FAST Financial Reporting Module  Reviewing your Budget  Payroll Services has been working with an Ellucian consultant to scope out important work on optimizing  FM5 Policy Training Banner HR and Web Time Entry. Priority setting between  Initial sign up has been strong with a participant list of 20 Payroll, HR and IT has been completed and we have individuals for both training days applicable in the month identified 3 key areas that we can proceed with utilizing of September. departmental budgets this fiscal year – a structural PAYROLL SERVICES: overview (training for a broad base of users to gain understanding of how the system is configured), EPAF Staffing (digital workflows and approvals), and various  There has been significant turnover in Payroll Services enhancements for benefits/deductions to reduce manual over the last 2 months. We have now filled all vacancies work for both Payroll and HR. A Statement of Work has but of the 7 BCGEU staff positions, 3 employees are been signed off. Some hours from the project were used completely new to KPU and 1 is new to the Team Lead for consulting on the retro activities by HR and Payroll. role. All work is being performed on schedule but we do The statement of work will be amended to reallocate have additional risk in the short term until we are able to hours from the other tasks to the retro work already done. bring all new employees to a comfortable training level. Banner Document Management The typical learning curve for a payroll role is 6 months to a year depending on complexity.  Payroll Services is working to implement Banner  Payroll Services employees are working successfully from Document Management to reduce our paper filing. This home most of the time with the exception of new hires project has been on hold since March as we wait for HR to who are starting on campus and will transition to working complete their design phase. We will share some of the from home once we have completed basic training. documents stored in the HR cabinets. We have done some minor testing and discovered an issue with a unique Initiatives key error. IT (Felicia) is investigating. Electronic TD1s

 Our project to roll out electronic TD1s through Employee Self-Service is on hold as we have encountered system challenges within Banner (our software system). The software manufacturer, Ellucian, is working on resolution.

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY the hardware due to supplies being on back order. We expect to take delivery in mid-September and plan to have Staffing them setup immediately upon arrival. The management team continues to work on filling vacant positions through backfilling and new hires. We are also Business Continuity assessing and working on staffing plans to ensure that As part of the long term strategy, IT plans to implement high- adequate level of staff is in place within the department. This speed redundant links at the Richmond, Cloverdale, Civic Plaza will allow for full support of all the University services with the and Langley campuses providing a similar level of redundancy ability to build redundancy for vacation coverage. as what we have at the Surrey campus. To address the current risk of having single links to these campuses, IT is Key vacancies and hires in IT: implementing a short-term strategy comprised of cost  Network Administrator – Vacant effective redundant VPN links. Although the throughput of  Senior Network Specialist (Servers) – Vacant these VPN links will be less than the solution proposed for high  Senior Information Security Analyst– Filled Internally -speed fiber links (and thus result in deprecated service levels), (Anthony Harris) this temporary stop gap solution will help reduce the impact of WAN link failures to the Richmond, Cloverdale, Langley and  Network Specialist – Filled Internally (Pushpinder Bhaika) Civic Plaza campuses during the short term. The procurement  2 Programmer (Term) – Filled Internally (Rishab Ahuja, process has started for the redundant links and we expect the Dilpreet Basatia) physical links to be installed towards the end of September.  Project Leader – (Enterprise Systems - Student) – Vacant The perimeter firewalls have been procured which will provide  Project Leader – (Enterprise Systems - Finance) – Vacant secure VPN site to site connectivity and we expect that the  Programmer Analyst – (Enterprise Systems – CRM/ redundant links to be active by the end of October. SharePoint) - Vacant Wi-Fi Access – Parking Areas Telephone System Implementation Surrey, Richmond, and Langley campuses all have temporary An IT Pilot group has been running since mid-June. The vendor Wi-Fi access points for students to use in designated parking conducted an information session that provided a Teams areas during COVID-19. A short term solution for the telephony architecture overview and highlighted advanced Cloverdale campus is not available due to the location of the calling features to the IT team back in June. Personas have usable parking area and its proximity to the existing network been created for the various use cases within KPU including infrastructure. staff, faculty, general areas, vendors, and KSA. Given the AppsAnywhere unprecedented times of COVID-19, a new deployment plan was designed to facilitate deployment of the Teams phones AppsAnywhere has been procured to help facilitate student even when the majority of staff are working remotely. A access to applications during COVID-19. Students normally project timeline has been agreed upon with IT and access these applications through campus labs and BroadConnect and a formal project timeline is now being workstations but can now access these applications through drafted by the vendor. Information sessions will be scheduled the AppsAnywhere platform. Both AppsAnywhere Cloudpaging with various departments to provide insight into the and Parallels environment have been setup. We have worked deployment plan and schedule as well as the personas. with T&L to compile a list of applications required by faculty for the Fall Semester and IT Services has now completed Digital Ready Classrooms and Meeting Rooms publishing the applications in AppsAnywhere.  The Kramer wireless upgrades are 90% complete. The Citrix Remote PC Access remaining upgrades are pending due to network Recognizing that some students may not have access to connectivity requirements or furniture upgrades. personal workstations that are capable of supporting more  Spruce 126 pending reschedule for late fall – still on hold demanding applications such as AutoCAD and SolidWorks, we have been able to make the lab workstations available through  Classroom Controller EOL Replacement – the replacement Citrix Remote PC Access. Students are now able to access of 130 EOL controllers in classrooms have now been these lab PC’s remotely. Access to these systems will be completed for the 2020 cycle. controlled based on class enrollment. Approximately 144  Projector EOL Replacement – Phase 1 of the projector students from WSD, CADD, and HORT will be granted access. refresh comprised of 24 units has completed. This is a temporary solution made available to students only Procurement has begun for Phase 2 of the projector during COVID-19. Note that a more scalable and manageable refresh. solution must be implemented for a larger scale student access model.  Mobile Cart for KPU Tech – Currently awaiting delivery of

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VPN Facilities Service management and maintenance control Since the refresh of VPN devices and the addition of 100 user solutions. The marketing team has slowed down in their licenses back on May 8th, 2020 IT Services has been monitoring progression of implementing their project/incident tracking VPN usage closely and are not anticipating any capacity issues solution for KPU.ca requests, and will be looking at for the fall semester. implementing later this fall. CRM Project Single Sign-on Redesign The CRM project implementing Microsoft Greymatter for The Identity Management System (IDMS) committee continues Recruitment Phase I is reaching go-live by early October. to work on several projects: implementing O365 and Adobe Project soft go-live (hand-over) was pushed from August 2020 consent deployments for privacy; improving password strength to September 2020, to give the FSO and International teams policies; consolidating the SSO ID into one single ID, and multi more time to train and work with the product. Go-live will factor authentication security on some functions and feature components such as improving the prospect journey applications. from the KPU.CA website to the KPU Recruitment team. The COVID-19 Information Security Critical Alerts and Training Greymatter solution with allow recruitment to better manage Information Security is in the planning stages to deliver a and track prospect engagements, event management, Security Awareness Campaign supporting the fall semester to enhanced communications, prospect metrics, etc. The next remind KPU staff to be aware of the many cyber threats and phase will continue shortly after looking at implementing how project against falling victim. Chatbot technologies and leveraging improved communication tools. KPU Information Security’s Participation in Canada’s National Research and Education Network Joint Security Project HR Applicant Tracking System KPU Information Security is working with 150 other The ORACLE Taleo HR Employment Tracking system Universities from across Canada to decide on the data types implementation is continuing. The HR Team is in the final that should be analyzed for Information Security Threats from stages of roll-out to the University Community. each institution so that a combined incident response BANNER Business Transformation framework can be shared. A data sharing agreement is in The HR BANNER Business Transformation continues its development and once received will contact KPU General progress completing the initial component of their prioritized Counsel for review and sign-off. The KPU Network Intrusion top 3 initiatives based on the road map created in April. detection system is fully functional. Currently the team is reviewing their current BANNER Vulnerability Management Program resources and workloads before moving to the next project As of August 2020, two existing Network Specialist positions phases (either Electronic Personal Action Forms – EPAF, or are now reporting into Information Security. These positions Position Management). are dedicated to security patch management on both the BANNER 9 Projects enterprise server infrastructure and desktop\laptop operating The BANNER University database server is currently systems. This program will be built out to include vulnerability transitioning to a new Virtualization technology to improve the scanning and system hardening. need for a more reliable business continuity strategy. The CUCCIO's (Canadian University Council of Chief Information BANNER Core Team is working on the next upgrade slated to Officers) Cybersecurity National Benchmarking Project go live on October 26th. They are also working on The benchmarking component of this national project will implementation of other aspects of new BANNER Web commence the week of August 24th which was delayed due to Applications (Faculty Grade Loading, E-Commerce, Graduation, COVID-19. CUCCIO sent out an information security survey etc.). Other projects which are in progress that have significant related to remote working that went out to Universities from impact to the University are: Ellucian Elevate - Flexreg across Canada. The output of this survey will provide KPU replacement for CPS courses (go-live in September for Spring information on how other Universities are supporting security 2021 courses); Data Warehouse Phase II implementation protections with the remote work model. underway to leverage current technologies for Enrolment Management Dashboard deployment; Implementation of Office 365 Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection Document management for HR and Payroll to transition to a This program has detected, reported and mitigated a number paperless mode l is currently underway. of serious Malware phishing related attacks at KPU from staff TeamDynamix - Facilities computers that are both onsite and remote. KPU Information Security were able to react and stop the threats before The University continues to work on a new Enterprise wide business operations were severely compromised. This Incident Management Project with a software called Team program is a key proactive security component in support of Dynamix. The Facilities team is working on implementing a 8 Finance & Administration cont’d remote working. Information security is actively working on how this program can be implemented to cover a greater percentage of computers working off campus. Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection; Safe Links and Safe Attachments This program has been running successfully scanning email attachments and links for cyber threats. Once the Exchange Online staff migration is complete in fall 2020 all mailboxes will be monitored by this software. Day to Day Phishing Mitigation Operations This program continues to be very successful in the intake of phishing related email reports to review and block threat actors on a daily basis. Since the inception of this program in July 2019, 4428 phishing emails have been reported via the phish alert button. Each phish alert report is addressed and mitigation measures are done to block the threat and reduce risks throughout KPU. Information Security now has dedicated operational staff monitoring and reacting to phishing threats on a daily basis. Phishing Preventative Security Initiatives Implemented Don McGonigal, recipient of the The compulsory KPU staff and faculty Information Security Awareness 2019/2020 Distinguished Service (Staff) Award training has been moving along now with a 76% completion rate at the time of this report. Information Security and IT is reaching out to both the staff and KPU leadership promoting important nature of skills learned to increase the participation rate.

CAMPUS SAFETY AND SECURITY  IT in regards to an Emergency Protocol training video;  KPU Behavioral Intervention Team (BIT) and the Threat SECURITY Assessment Team (TAT) steering committees. Security has moved into the new security office in Surrey Main The Emergency Operations Centre is now closed as reentry building. The new office allows the Security officers a place to guidelines have been made. work on initiatives that will continue to keep the KPU community safe. Security Officers continue to do a daily count Emergency Planning is working with KPU Communication and of employee and student attendance at the campuses. Planning in regards to the Fraser Health project where FH is reviewing the possibility of using Langley campus as a COVID The Security officers finished training on the operation and testing site. uses of the EVAC CHAIR, which is a chair that can be used for people with mobility restrictions. KPU Facilities has also been Emergency Planning has the KPU Emergency Protocols Posters trained on the use of the chair. There is one chair on each in posters holders ready to be installed at Tech and Langley. campus that will allow persons with physical impairments to Emergency Planning has overseen the installation of “Thumb be evacuated from areas where they normally would use an Locks” at Tech. Thumb Locks have been installed to be used in elevator. the event of an emergency lock down situation. Security officers have taken a refresher course in Diversity Emergency Planning has registered for the “BC Shake Out” Awareness and Indigenous Awareness and how to best handle 2020, happening in Oct 2020. situations that are fueled by prejudice and gender bias matters. SECURITY SYSTEMS (Cameras, Access Control, Intrusion) Campus Safety and Security has developed a system to track Minor maintenance and repairs were made to the intrusion approved and proposed initiatives for their department. system in Langley as well as WSOD. Minor card reader issues and repairs in Langley were handled in house with spare EMERGENCY PLANNING equipment kept in inventory. Otherwise all systems are Emergency Planning continues to work with functioning as expected. Our department has produced a safe  Risk Management in regards to Business Continuity work plan to return to campus and it was a busy summer of Planning; attending to service items and key requests.  The Pandemic Response and Recovery Working Group; 9 Office of the Vice President, Finance & Administration

FACILITIES SERVICES

CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT (Includes Planning, Design, Renovation and New Construction) KPU Surrey Campus Security Office Renovation: New Security Office in Surrey Main Atrium is complete. The renovation scope includes two private offices, new furniture, custom storage millwork and a service counter.

Cedar Offices Renovation

Office renovations for General Counsel (Cedar 1020) and the Communications Department (Cedar 2105) are complete. The renovation scope included: Cedar 1020 – new private offices with improved acoustic insulation, paint, ceiling tiles and lighting.

Cedar 2105 – new private offices and meeting room with glass fronts, office furniture, storage and meeting room furniture.

Surrey Main 160A (Counselling & Advising Reception) Replaced the desk in Main 160A with a new L-shaped desk that is fully height-adjustable and features an electric controller and programmable settings.

Surrey Arbutus 2400 (Teaching & Learning)

Office reconfiguration to the Teaching & Learning area is complete. It results in more cohesive furniture and a functional layout.

KPU Richmond Campus

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Clinic Reception

Renovations to the TCM reception (R3700) is complete. The renovation scope included custom service counter and glass partitions to enclose the waiting area.

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FACILITIES MAINTENANCE/OPERATIONS/GENERAL: All common areas have been mapped out to show COVID-19 physical distancing issues and posted online. Signage has gone up throughout all common areas, and furniture has been relocated or removed to support physical distancing. Wall signage and floor decals indicate the following: Notice to stay home if sick ; Reminders to maintain 2m distancing; Narrow corridor, or 1-way traffic flow; Occupancy limits for all common use areas Surrey KPU Campus (4) Elevator Modernization Project Completion of the hydraulic cylinder replacement, electrical controls upgrades, and interior cab modernization with enhanced accessibility functions were completed on the Surrey Birch building lobby elevator. Modernization work on the Fir elevator was similarly started in the Summer 2020 and is expected to be complete by September 30, 2020. The Birch building service elevator and the Main building lobby elevator modernizations have also commenced and are expected to be completed by November 2020. Birch lobby elevator Fir building elevator ANCILLARY SERVICES: Food Services  Submissions for the Food Services RFP are currently in the evaluation phase. We have received two submissions in total. Eval- uations will be completed by Friday, September 14, 2020. Consensus meetings are scheduled for September 16th and 17th.  The Cold Beverage contract is in the final phase, with the final review underway with Procurement and then contract sign off.  The Energy Drink contract is in the final phase, with the final review underway with Procurement and then contract sign off.  The Vending contract is being finalized to transition to the BC Net contract. Current machine/product mix and layouts under review with the Vendor.  Final review of the Cloverdale kitchen was completed with Joey’s Restaurants to ensure the contract has been met. Parking The Surrey parking lots asphalt repairs are currently in the scheduling phase for Fall completion. Fleet The Tsawwassen Farm School has acquired a new KPU Fleet cargo van (2018 Ram ProMaster Cargo Van ) to help with deliveries of the Farm products to consumers and local markets. Bookstore  To make access to eBooks easier for students, the Bookstore now has the ability to send permalinks to all instructors who have a digital option for their course material. Instruc- tors are being asked to include the link in their course outline. This new process will get the course material into the student’s hands much more quickly.  Surrey and Cloverdale campus stores reopened Monday, August 31st, while Richmond and Langley stores will remain closed. Physical distancing, hygiene and maximum occupancy guidelines are all being enforced for student and staff safety.  As all online orders are being processed out of the Surrey location, the store floorplan was reconfigured to allow for a mini-warehouse within the retail store space.  Students are still being encouraged to order online. To facilitate the increased number of orders to KPU Bookstores, we have expanded the successful Curbside pick up for the Fall semester from 10 to 15 spots. Students also have the option of having course material shipped to their homes. 11 Office of the Provost & Vice President, Academic

Hello and welcome to the 2020-2021 academic year. A lot has examining Inclusive Communities for Older Immigrants (ICOI): transpired since the last Board of Governors meeting and it’s Developing multi-level, multi-component interventions to been an interesting period in the history of post-secondary reduce social isolation and promote connectedness among education. Thanks to the dedication, hard work and resiliency older immigrants in Canada. Faculty and students in Business of our faculty and staff, KPU is weathering through the have been extremely active with presenting papers and pandemic and the quality of our educational offerings publishing scholarly works contributions, their contributions continues to be high. To all our employees, I want to offer an are too numerous to list here and are highlighted in their enormous thank you, and in particular, thanks to our students annual report. for sticking with us as they continue to be the foundation of And in Arts, Liz Toohey-Wiese is the Caetani Cultural Center’s our work at KPU. Although our physical campuses may seem ‘FreshAir! Artist in Residence in Vernon’ where she has been rather quiet and empty for this time of year, I can assure you working on a series of paintings of wildfires. The KPU Library there is a wealth of activity happening in the array of online has been open throughout the pandemic and reduced their learning opportunities we are offering. hours in order to operate on all four campuses safely. Library KPU courses are being delivered with both synchronous and staff were able to participate in a schedule that kept the doors asynchronous components and we are offering a limited open for students who needed access to computers and study number of courses with face-to-face experiential learning. The space. courses with face-to-face content have comprehensive course The KPU Institute for safety and BC WorkSafe plans that were developed in Sustainable Food accordance with the Ministry’s ‘COVID-19 Go-Forward Systems (ISFS) had Guidelines for B.C.’s Post-Secondary Sector’ requirements. For an extremely busy the fall 2020 semester, we have roughly 1900 course offerings. summer and one of Of these, 1821 are academic courses, 76 courses are in trades the visual highlights foundations and apprenticeships, and 10 are in continuing was the acquisition professional studies. In addition, there are several of the produce apprenticeship courses to add to the total that will be offered delivery van. The van later in the fall semester. For the spring 2021 semester, we are visits three farmers anticipating a similar range of course offerings and delivery markets and many styles. other destinations in It has also been a busy summer in the Provost’s Office with the lower mainland and is also used for program activities. regards to human resource issues ranging from talent searches Some other activities that the ISFS have been engaged in to achieving a new collective agreement with the Faculty includes a nation-wide survey of Canadian’s perspective of Association. Dr. David Florkowski is our new Associate Vice food access during the pandemic and providing food boxes to President, Academic and he began the role in July 2020. David support two metro Vancouver organizations in partnership was previously the Dean of the Faculty of Health and the with the Tsawwassen First Nation. search for the next Dean is underway. The search for the next Notable meetings and conferences involving the Provost’s Vice Provost, Teaching and Learning will begin shortly and the Office include: search for the new Associate Dean of the Faculty of Science  AEST Learning Continuity Group Meetings– ongoing and Horticulture was completed this month. I would like to  AEST Technology Working Group Meetings– ongoing thank several academic leaders who have stepped up to fulfil  MacKay CEO Forum, Philanthropy in our New Reality – It’s several vacant positions while the searches are underway. Time to Step Up – July 8 Special thanks go Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani, Interim Vice Provost,  Teaching and Learning; Dr. Joel Murray who stayed on as Polytechnics Canada VPA’s Meeting – July 10 Associate Dean of the Faculty of Science and Horticulture;  Surrey Local Immigration Partnership Committee Meeting Sharon Leitch, Interim Associate Dean of Health; Dr. Heather – July 23 Harrison, Interim Associate Dean, School of Business, and Mike  Advice from Students: Post-Secondary in the Age of Covid- Ford, Interim Associate Dean, School of Business. 19, Invited Observer,  SFU Wosk Centre for Dialogue – July 30 Although faculty have been busy preparing their courses for  Perspectives on Reconciliation - A Virtual Convening, online delivery they continue to be engaged in scholarship and Yukon University – August 25 outreach. Dr. Asma Sayed was elected to the College of the  Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth: Responding to Employee Royal Society of Canada in the New Scholars, Scientist, and Disloyalty and Breaches of Trust. Lancaster House Audio Artists category and she was also recently named as a KPU Tier Conference – September 10 II Canada Research Chair. In Health, Dr. Balbir Gurm, Faculty of Health, is co-investigator of a $2.5 million five-year SSHRC grant. Awarded in June 2020, it is a stage 2 partnership grant 12 Faculty of Academic and Career Preparation

TRANSITIONING TO A NEW FACULTY NAME: ACADEMIC & faculty completed the Level-Up workshop offered by our CAREER PREPARATION colleagues in the Teaching & Learning Commons. As well, experienced EU English instructor, Gillian Sudlow, has accepted The Faculty of the Whole meeting was held virtually on Friday, a partial release to join the Teaching & Learning team in September 18, and Bylaw amendments reflecting the Faculty supporting other faculty across KPU as we adapt to remote name change and two department name changes were delivery. adopted. The new Faculty name will be Academic and Career Preparation and the department name changes are English Enrolment in English Upgrading for summer and fall 2020 has Upgrading (formerly Academic and Career Preparation), and been a challenge and several regular faculty in the department Access Programs (formerly Access Programs for people with have received layoff notices. We are hopeful with improved Disabilities). These name changes will take effect publicly in admissions processes and reduced barriers to access and September, 2021; however, various units within the university transition along the KPU Pathway, enrolment numbers will have already begun to use the new names. We anticipate a bit recover so KPU can serve its regional mandate as an access of confusion over the year regarding the name change, but institution. have been working closely with the Registrar’s office and EU faculty, with special recognition to Rachelle Hollaway and Marketing to ensure as smooth a transition as possible. Louise Bruins, worked virtually with great patience and At the Faculty of the Whole meeting, the VP Academic flexibility to continue to offer free EU English Assessments to provided an update on the state of affairs at KPU. Members new KPU students. The department also offered virtual twice- of the Faculty attended breakout sessions to further the monthly Info Sessions with the support of KPU’s Future development of the ACP Academic Plan. Students’ Office. Chair, Chris Traynor, represented the English Upgrading department for KPU’s Virtual Open House recording, The Dean’s office has been working with Student Affairs and which was filmed in late August and will be streamed on the Learning Centres on increasing supports for students in October 3. In addition, faculty in EU have collaborated with the online environment. The Student Ambassadors pilot colleagues in Marketing to revamp the department website, project, begun in the summer term, will be expanded this which should be forthcoming in the fall. term to offer support to students in English upgrading classes ENGQ 1091, 1092, and 1099. As well, we are excited to report As during the summer term, with continued creativity, patience, that a faculty member in the English Language Studies and support, we are continuing our relationship with the department has been seconded to the Learning Centres to Phoenix Society. The switch to remote learning delivery has provide language support for students and peer tutors (more been a service challenge, but KPU has a long standing on this below). partnership with the Phoenix Society to provide upgrading courses on site at the Phoenix Kwantlen Learning Centre (PKLC) Enrolment Challenges: in Surrey. PKLC offers personalized education plans and is a key Enrolment in English Language Studies and English Upgrading service for participants rebuilding their lives and an essential is 25% lower in fall 2020 as compared to fall 2019. We see this component of the integrated services model designed to end as largely due to the pandemic making it harder than ever for the cycle of addiction and homelessness. students to access upgrading courses, particularly as online ACCESS PROGRAMS courses also require technological supports (e.g., webcams, high-speed internet) that might not be available to all In the time of COVID, APD's priority became student safety. students. The decrease has required us to issue notifications When KPU announced that almost all classes would be online, of pending layoff in all three departments. APD faculty began to learn and work on how to pivot this experientially-based program into a virtual environment. It I would like to express my great appreciation for the resilience began with contacting all students enrolled for 2020-2021 to and professionalism displayed by all ACA faculty and staff as give them the choice to join us 100% online or to wait until the we have adjusted to the new conditions demanded by the community-based work experiences may be offered again. We pandemic. In conversations with faculty over the last few began the year with 29 students and have had everyone stay months, many have expressed a renewed commitment to with us to this point. We all know that technology has a way of teaching and enthusiasm for creating a welcoming, fun online engaging students that keeps them motivated and inspired. We atmosphere for students. are finding this to be the case in APD. Some students ENGLISH UPGRADING (EU) automatically open the LMS or video conferencing tools and know exactly what to do, while others ask a few more questions Faculty in the Department of English Upgrading collaboratively and have a few more tries (much like the instructor) and some made a successful transition to online delivery during the require extra facilitation. We are happy to report that by the summer term and more faculty have eagerly embarked on third day we consistently had all 29 students in our virtual their first fully-online courses for the fall term. Many EU classroom. They are telling us that they like the platform and

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are very excited to meet their classmates. They worry about for successful learning, and helping to teach the three levels of whether they will get into a face to face work experience or Peer Tutors. We see this as an exciting opportunity to support not. the larger KPU community with direct support for English language learners. Faculty have chosen to keep all students as one cohort and to co-teach all curricular areas synchronously with additional Members of the ELS Curriculum Committee will be attending asynchronous activities. Instructional Associates follow up the BCCAT ESL Articulation Meeting on October 1st and 2nd. The with workshops and activities to provide opportunities for event, which has representatives from all post-secondary students to apply their learning. There are virtual office hours institutions in the province, is generally held in the spring but where students meet with faculty individually or in groups, was postponed this year and will be delivered online. and there are assignments that are completed offline. The principles of Universal Design for Learning inform all aspects of our programming. Two weeks in and we feel we are Report from the Home Office: mastering the new approach together.

Our instructor and instructional associate contingent has been reduced due to COVID-related enrollment challenges. Four IA's were laid off, and at the start of the new year we will lose

1 half-time instructor and .25 of another. This term Dr. Teresa Swan, who completed her Ph.D. in August, is teaching half time and using a ministry grant half time to sort out

administrative revisions and redesign APD to expand possibilities and align the program more with inclusive education principles.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE STUDIES (ELS)

Faculty in ELS took full advantage of the many PD

opportunities offered over the summer to redesign their courses, adapt material and create rich online learning experiences for our students this fall. TALK (THIRD AGE LEARNING @ KWANTLEN) The refreshed courses continue to successfully help our Thanks to Sucheta Singh, Media Specialist in External Relations, students meet learning outcomes in a completely online TALK has made a splash in regional news, and in the national environment while building a sense of community. In ELS we publication, Academica’s Today’s Top Ten in Higher Ed. TALK’s strive to integrate and connect our students to the larger KPU big news is that all courses in fall 2020 will be online. The community, and this is a goal we intend to also achieve online. overwhelming support from TALK members whose average age It has been especially challenging to create meaningful ways is 70+, to move to an online forum was not surprising given the for students to communicate with their peers in online robust, progressive characteristics of the program and its Listening and Speaking classes. Transitioning to giving members. TALK is hopeful the move to online learning will presentations online required adaptation for both students increase its membership and registrations because members and instructors. Building in opportunities for live speaking will no longer be required to drive to the nearest KPU campus practice has become a prime focus of synchronous sessions to attend a course. Academic and Career Preparation staff which helps to build the community engagement that provide the administrative support to help TALK members naturally happens in an on-campus class. We hope to revive navigate the new online experience. For more information on our traditional “Lunch and Learn” activities in a virtual world. TALK and the slate of upcoming courses visit: www.kpu.ca/talk Stay tuned! The Pronunciation and Grammar electives have become very popular as supplemental courses that focus on a particular skill area and appeal to students beyond the ELS program. Elizabeth Spalding is the successful candidate for a time release to offer support as a Faculty Tutor from the ACP Faculty in the Learning Centre for the next academic year. Her responsibilities include helping to mentor Peer Tutors, providing ESL specific tutoring, co-facilitating Orientation courses for new students, teaching study skills and strategies

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SPOTLIGHT: Devinder Khera, Kiran Dogra, Cydney Cocking, Jonathan Lau, Jenna Mitchell, Brandon Justus, Joey Chhina, We are thrilled to share the news that Dr. Asma Sayed (ENGL) Adrienne Campbell. has been named a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in South Asian literary and cultural studies. This Tier 2 Chair position, co-  Amanda Champion (PSYC) BA Honours Graduate: sponsored by KPU, brings a grant providing $600,000 to Admitted to PhD program for Fall 2020 in Criminology at support Dr. Sayed’s research over the next five years. As a SFU (September 2020). She also received a $15,000 Canada Research Chair, Dr. Sayed will lead projects that entrance award for her PhD program. (September 2020). include digitally archiving South Asian artistic productions from  Manmeet Chhina (PSYC) BA Honours Graduate: 1910 to 2010, a period of historic importance concerning the Psychology Manmeet Chhina (PSYC BA Honours) has been South Asian diaspora in Canada, and will translate works accepted to UBC’s M.E.D. counselling program for this Fall. written by Canadian writers of South Asian origin in their (September 2020). heritage languages, such as Hindi and Gujarati, into English.  Kiran Dogra (PSYC) BA Honours Graduate: Canadian This is a tremendous achievement, as well as a fantastic Psychological Association Award of Excellence for Honours opportunity for English, for Arts and Arts students, and for KPU (June 30, 2020). Honours thesis: “A View from Another as a whole. Congratulations, Dr. Sayed! Lens: Investigating the Misinformation Effect in 360° STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENTS: Virtual Reality.”  CNPS Faculty: Faith Auton-Cuff, Sarah Hickinbottom, Briar  Shelby Hughes (PSYC) BA Graduate: Accepted into the Schulz (EDST): Graduate Program Acceptances in MSc. In Communication Sciences and Disorders for Counselling Psychology: September 2020 at the University of Alberta on an Entrance Scholarship Award.  Katherine Gobes (City University)  Del Boutilier (City University)  Chantelle Jusay (PSYC) BA Graduate: Chantelle was  Bethany Berkowski (Adler) accepted into the Doctorate in Psychology (PsyD) program  Erika Reddy (Yorkville) at Adler University. (September 2020).  Ashley McTaggert (Trinity Western University)  Ashley McTaggart (PSYC) BA Honours Graduate: Canadian  Raman Dhaliwal (Adler) Psychological Association Award of Excellence for Honours  Kwantlen Psychology Society: Helping build student (June 30, 2020). Honours thesis: “Altering maladaptive community at this time, the Kwantlen Psychology Society interpretations in perfectionism with an online cognitive organized a variety of events for all KPU students, bias intervention”. Specifically -- Cydney Cocking (President), David Hattie (Vice President), Amanda Dumoulin (Secretary), Wesley Kwok (Marketing Coordinator), Kayla Garvin (Treasurer/ Volunteer Coordinator/Events Coordinator), Aidan Hooper (Systems Administrator), Angela Pelletier (Research Director) -- organized the following online activities for KPU students:  June 17 @ 7 PM – KPS Movie Night: Inception  June 23 @ 3 PM – KPS Games Night  July 8 @ 1 PM – Honours Information Session, Panelists: Dr. Shayna Rusticus, Brandon Justus, Jacqueline Lingbaoan, Kari Walton, Mario Anuales  July 15 @ 1 PM – “R” Statistics Workshop w/ Dr. Levente Orban  July 16 @ 7 PM – KPS Movie Night: A Beautiful Mind  July 30 @ 7 PM – KPS Games Night  August 3 @ 7 PM – KPS Movie Night: Inside Out  August 14 @ 1 PM – Open Science Framework (OSF) Workshop w/ Kiran Dogra.  August 17 @ 3 PM – KPS Games Night  Kwantlen Psychology Student Journal: The Kwantlen Larissa Petrillo, recipient of the Psychology Student Journal, published Issue 2 on July 31, 2019/2020 Distinguished Teaching Award 2020, under the student leadership of Journal Manager/ Editor, Amanda Dumoulin and Review Board/Copyeditors, 15 Faculty of Arts cont’d

 Jasrajan Nijjar (PSYC) BA Graduate: Jasrajan Nijjar, has should keep these tips in mind”: https:// been accepted into a Masters Program in Organizational www.theglobeandmail.com/business/careers/ Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. management/article-you-have-to-push-through- (September 2020). with-intent-job-seekers-should-keep-these/  Puneet Sooch (alum) (HIST): KPU History Student, BA (August 28). 2016: graduated law school from the University of Ottawa  Aislinn Hunter (CRWR): Art Song Lab guest poet July 5- and called to the BC Bar (Sept 1, 2020). 10th.  Aaron Throness (alum) (HIST): KPU History Student, BA  Globe and Mail profile Aug 8, 2020. 2019: “Isolation, Neglect, and Decay: A Study of the Ming  49th shelf interview - https://49thshelf.com/ Dynasty’s Coastal Consciousness”, Synergy: Journal of Blog/2020/08/31/The-Chat-with-Aislinn-Hunter Contemporary Asian Studies 4 (Aug 2020): 2-15.  Ottawa Writers festival event (podcast) Sept 4,  Kari Walton (PSYC) BA Honours Graduate: Canadian 2020. Psychological Association Award of Excellence for Honours  Book review of her novel The Vancouver Sun Aug (June 30, 2020). Honours thesis: “Motivations Behind 29. Catcalling – Exploring Men’s Engagement in Street  Book review of her novel Victoria Times-Colonist Harassment Behaviour.” Aug 9th.  Paulo Majano (FINA): Juror for ARTS 2020 Exhibition of  Anh Khoa (Kevin) Vo (PSYC) BAA Honours Graduate: Visual Arts for the Arts Council of Surrey. Exhibition June Admitted to PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of to August 2020. Media Coverage: Surrey Now Leader’s British Columbia (September 2020). Tom Zillich posted online June 29, 2020 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT:  Yanfeng Qu (LANC): As a VP of the Canadian Teaching  Daniel Bernstein (PSYC): Thesis Committee and Student Chinese as a Second Language Association, he helped Supervision: organize 6 online workshops on hands-on pedagogy for  Deva Ly (Ph.D., Psychology), Australian National online Chinese teaching from July 15-Aug 20, 2020. This University, 2019- present; committee member. series of workshops addressed the unique challenges and  Patricia Coburn (Ph.D., Psychology), SFU, 2014- needs of Chinese teaching online (e.g. tones and character 2020; committee member. teaching), with each session attracting 60-80 Chinese  Daniel Derksen (M.A. Psychology), SFU, 2017- teaching professionals across Canada and around the present; M.A. thesis and Ph.D. dissertation world. At the request of the enthusiastic participants, a supervisor.  Megan Giroux (M.A., Ph.D. Psychology), SFU, 2014-present; M.A. thesis and Ph.D. dissertation supervisor.  Camille Weinsheimer (Ph.D., Psychology), SFU, 2017-present; committee member.  Dianne Crisp (PSYC): Dianne Crisp organized and offered two “Very Basics of Moodle” workshops for faculty in Psychology between June - July 2020.  Farhad Dastur (PSYC): Completed an expert peer review of Adler University’s proposed Masters in Applied Psychology. (August 2020).  Candy Ho (EDST): Participated in the Asia Pacific Career Development Association – Western Region Meeting (July 10).  Interviewed by 680 News (News 1130 in BC) for Weekend Business Features, “Pandemic Opportunities”: https:// www.680news.com/2020/08/21/pandemic- opportunities-august-22-23-2020/ (August 22- 23).  Interviewed by Globe and Mail for article, “‘You Tracey Kinney, recipient of the have to push through with intent’: Job seekers 2019/2020 Distinguished Service (Faculty) Award

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follow-up session has been planned in Mid-October. Creative Works and Scholarly Publications:  Asma Sayed (ENGL): Completed Certificate in Diversity and  Aislinn Hunter (CRWR): Novel published: ‘The Certainties’ Inclusion, Cornell University, July 2020. Knopf, Penguin Random House, Aug 4, 2020.  Daniel Tones (MUSI): In June and July, Daniel Tones  Feature essay on witness: Toronto Star, Aug 8, coordinated applications, interviews, and welcomed new 2020. members to the Percussive Arts Society’s (PAS)  Daniel Bernstein (PSYC): *Derksen DG, *Giroux ME, International Committee. As Chair of this committee, Dr. Connolly DA, Newman EJ, Bernstein DM (2020). Truthiness Tones leads a talented and dedicated team of artist- and law: Nonprobative photos bias perceived credibility in educators from across the globe, all of whom are part of forensic contexts. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 1–10. the 5000-member Percussive Arts Society. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3709. (*denotes student or  On June 17, Daniel Tones and colleagues Jane post-doctoral co-author when work was done). Hayes, Gordon Cobb, and Zdenek Skoumal  Ad Hoc Reviews (journal manuscripts): organized and hosted an online graduation event *Completes all reviews with students. for students in KPU’S BMMA program. 60 guests  Child Development* and families from across the country tuned in to  Journal of Experimental Social cheer on our music graduates. Psychology*  As past director of its percussion program, on  Journal of Cognition and Development* August 7, Daniel Tones joined faculty and  Memory & Cognition (2 manuscripts) * students from across North America in the Prairie  Gira Bhatt (PSYC): Bhatt, G., Safdar, S. Berry, J., Yampolsky, Music Residency’s Online Forum. M., Tonks, R. (2020). What is racism? What can we do to RECOGNITION address it? "Psychology Works"Fact Sheet Racism. Awards and Appointments: Canadian Psychological Association. https://cpa.ca/ psychology-works-fact-sheet-racism/.  Francis Abiew (POLI): External Examiner, Ph.D. Dissertation, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta, June -1  Shelley Boyd (Associate Dean, ARTS) and Dorothy July 6, 2020. Barenscott (Fine Arts): Canadian Culinary Imaginations. Eds. Shelley Boyd and Dorothy Barenscott. Montreal:  Daniel Bernstein (PSYC): 2020 KPU 0.6% Professional McGill Queen’s University Press., 2020. Development Fund. “The effects of hindsight bias and confirmation bias perceptions of COVID-19.”  Greg Chan (ENGL): Publication of Issue 5.1 of Mise-en- scene: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration (as its editor-  Farhad Dastur (PSYC): Received a BCcampus grant to in-chief): July 1, 2020. develop open online educational resources for Introduction to Psychology– Level II. (July 2020).  Launch of KDocs Talks 2020 video series and “KDocs Talks to Virago Nation”: Sept 1, 2020.  Candy Ho (EDST): Appointed Vice Chair, CERIC, a national  Nicola Harwood (CRWR): Launched an exhibition called organization that advances education and research in Summoning in Prince George’s Two Rivers Gallery. career counselling and career development: https:// Conceived as a “sound temple built of the female voice” ceric.ca/ (June 22). the exhibit allows audience members to activate voices  Aislinn Hunter (CRWR): Her novel ‘The Certainties’ that emerge, overlap, build, crescendo, and recede. July published by Knopf, Penguin Random House, was on the 31-October 11, 2020. bestsellers list for 3 weeks in August.  Kyle Jackson (HIST): Scholarly publication (journal article):  Asma Sayed (ENGL): Elected a Member of the College of Kyle Jackson, “Possessing Christianity in Northeast India: New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists, the Royal Society of Kelkang, 1937”, Modern Asian Studies, 1 June 2020, First Canada, September 2020. View, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X1900026X.  Appointed Board Member, South Asian Network  Creative work (photograph): Honorable Mention for Secularism and Democracy (SANSAD), 2020- in the Langley Heritage Society’s 40th Anniversary 21. Photo Contest (18 May 2020): https://  Valérie Vézina (Political Science): The Canadian Political www.langleyheritage.ca/2020/05/18/photo- Science Association/ Association canadienne de science contest-winners/. politique announced on June 12 that Valérie Vézina’s  Leonora King (GEOG & ENVI): New commentary published book, Une île, une nation ? Le nationalisme insulaire à la in the Journal of Geophysical Research (Earth Surface) – lumière des cas de Terre-Neuve et Puerto Rico, is the August 7th, 2020. Link: https:// official runner-up for le Prix francophone 2020 de agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ l’Association canadienne de science politique. full/10.1029/2020JF005588 17 Faculty of Arts cont’d

 Maddie Knickerbocker (HIST): Creative work: “Indigenous  Kira Wu (Fine Arts): Kira Wu is part of an art exhibition histories on Wikipedia,” Active History http:// entitled “Together Alone: A Community Reflects on activehistory.ca/2020/07/indigenous-history-on-wikipedia Quarantine.” The Fort Gallery, July 17 to August 16, 2020. (Jul 28, 2020).  Kwantlen Psychology Student Journal: Faculty Members  Tara Lyons (CRIM): Lacombe-Duncan, A., Logie, C.H., Arleigh Reichl, Patricia Coburn, Danica Parfyonov. Persad, Y., Leblanc, G., Nation, K., Kia, H., Scheim, A., Students: Amanda Dumoulin, Devinder Khera, Kiran Lyons, T., & Loutfy, M. (in press). ‘Transgender Education Dogra, Cydney Cocking, Jonathan Lau, Jenna Mitchell, for Affirmative and Competent HIV and Healthcare Brandon Justus, Joey Chhina, Adrienne Campbell. (TEACHH)’: Protocol of community-based participatory  The Kwantlen Psychology Student Journal was intervention development and a non-randomized multi- founded by Dr. Arleigh Reichl, and with the site pilot study with pre- post-test design in Canada. BMJ support of students and faculty, the KPSJ Open. (accepted for publication June 26, 2020). showcases the outstanding work of KPU  Paulo Majano (FINA): Launch of a Photography Instruction Psychology students, and provides students with App ‘Light & Shadow’. The App uses Augmented Reality valuable experience as editors, reviewers, and (AR) to teach Portrait Lighting at home. He developed the authors. Dr. Reichl is exceptionally pleased to App as a teaching tool for students learning from home announce the publication of Issue 2 of the after the move to online teaching during the summer Kwantlen Psychology Student Journal (published term. Photo Students can use their iPhone or iPad as a July 31, 2020): https://journals.kpu.ca/index.php/ virtual camera to visualize a photo studio setup in 3D and KPSJ/issue/view/95. This was an incredible team actual size in their home. Students can see the placement effort, with deepest gratitude conveyed to of lights interactively and visualize the effect of light Psychology’s amazing students and faculty. placement on the portrait model. The App is designed for  https://journals.kpu.ca/index.php/KPSJ/about/ KPU Photography students but is available to everyone for editorialTeam. A special thanks to Journal free in the Apple App Store. Light & Shadow available for Manager, Amanda Dumoulin, for overseeing the iPhone or iPad in the Apple App Store. http:// entire process and to the Review Board/ appstore.com/lightandshadow Copyeditors, Devinder Khera, Kiran Dogra, Cydney Cocking, Jonathan Lau, Jenna Mitchell,  Kamala Nayar (Asian Studies): Co-authored with Jaswinder Brandon Justus, Joey Chhina, Adrienne Campbell. Singh Sandhu, The Sikh View on Happiness: Guru Arjan’s Public Presentations: Sukhmani, Bloomsbury Press, June.   Robert Pasquini (ENGL): “A New Species of Daniel Bernstein (PSYC): Simon Fraser University (Psychology 300W: Critical Analysis of Issues in Notebook” (Short Fiction) in Hamilton Arts & Letters (11 June 2020): https://samizdatpress.typepad.com/ Psychology). hal_magazine_issue_thirte/a-new-species-of-notebook-by  Farhad Dastur (PSYC): Panelist on the Emerging Media BC -robert-pasquini-1.html webinar - Delivering value at a distance: Teaching & learning strategies, challenges, and solutions. https://  Cory Pedersen (PSYC): Skoda, K., Oswald, F., Shorter, L., & Pedersen, C. L. (2020). Perceptions of female genitalia youtu.be/fGEk2YuvTm8 (August 2020). following labiaplasty. The Journal of Sex Research.  Jack Hayes (HIST): “Land, Water, Fire, Air: Fairbank Center Advanced online publication. https:// Environment in Asia Reunion Workshop, Harvard doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2020.1808563. University” March 18-19 (cancelled due to COVID-19); presented in online forum July 10, 2020.  Ross Michael Pink and Lutfhi Dhofier, M.A., KPU alumnus (POLI):  Candy Ho (EDST): Served as a panelist at Colleges and Institutes Canada’s Sustainable Development Goals  Globe Post article, “World Refugee Day 2020: Is It Time for Roundtable Presentation (July 30, 2020). A New Refugee Convention” (Summer 2020).  Served as a guest speaker for BCIT’s Career Edge  Asma Sayed (ENGL): “Writing Beyond ‘Curry-Books’”: session, “How to job search pivot to you next Construction of Racialized and Gendered Diasporic opportunity” (August 13) Identities in Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?” Canadian Culinary Imaginations. Eds.  Aislinn Hunter (CRWR): Book Launch for ‘The Shelley Boyd and Dorothy Barenscott. Montreal: McGill Certainties’ (Zoom) August 6. Queen’s University Press., 2020, pp. 277-94.  Global TV interview, Aug 8.  “Fighting Abuse in the #MeToo Era: Because We  CBC Sunday Edition feature interview, Aug 9. are Girls.” Awaaz: Voices, vol. 17, no. 1, 2020, 90- 91. 18 Faculty of Arts cont’d

 Kyle Jackson (HIST): “Adventures in Digital History.” humorous and filled with wisdom. Ms. Kiran Invited presentation for the British Columbia Historical Dogra (BA Honours Psychology) gave our Federation conference, “Back to the Future.” Surrey, “Valedictorian” speech reflecting on her time at Canada. 5 June 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19). KPU and her optimism of what the future has  Tara Lyons (CRIM): ‘Canadian Youth Drug Policy, Then and instore for her and her fellow graduates. Closing Now.’ Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy’s the ceremonies was a poignant Psychology Support Don’t Punish conference. June 26, 2020. graduation slideshow, here, featuring the many congratulations to our Psychology graduates from  Lilach Marom (EDST): Interviewed for this article: https:// KPU faculty and staff. thetyee.ca/News/2020/09/02/Winning-Right-To-Battle-  Twenty-five graduates were recognized for their Racism/ accomplishment, which was witnessed by close  Cory Pedersen (PSYC): Sex & Psychology Blog, “Men and to 100 family and friends, along with KPU faculty, Women Have Skewed Ideas about What a “Normal” Vulva administrators and staff. Looks Like” 2020 (July).  In addition to the hard work of Ivy and Mary, we  Sex & Psychology Blog, “The Appeal of the DILF: wish to acknowledge the faculty support from Dr. Why Men Who Have Children Are Sexy” 2020 Jocelyn Lymburner, Dr. Kyle Matsuba, and Dr. (June). Cory Pedersen (Psychology Chair).  Asma Sayed (ENGL): Arts Speaker Series Presentation  Daniel Bernstein (PSYC): Arts Research and Scholarship (with KPU graduate, Rahil Faruqi): “Confronting Racism: Committee; Chair The Role of South Asian Radio in Canada.” September 16,  Health Sciences Advisory Committee; Member 2020.  Psychology Honours Committee; Chair  Ying-Yueh Chuang (FINA): Two-person exhibition: Don  Senate Standing Committee on Research, Hutchinson and Ying-Yueh Chuang: Passages @ Surrey Art Committee; Chair Gallery. This exhibition started on February 22, 2020 and  Gira Bhatt (PSYC): Psychology Honours Committee; has extended throughout the Fall until January 3, 2021 Supervisor (2020-2021). due to the Covid-19. https://www.surrey.ca/arts-culture/  Patricia Coburn (PSYC): Psychology Honours Committee; surrey-art-gallery/exhibitions/don-hutchinson-and-ying- Supervisor (2020-2021). yueh-chuang-passages.  Farhad Dastur (PSYC): Research Ethics Board Chair (2019- UNIVERSITY WIDE INITIATIVES: 2020).  Psychology Graduation Ceremony (Virtual) – Organizers  Kevin Hamilton (PSYC): Psychology Honours Committee; and Speakers: Ivy Ng, Mary Illical, Dr. Farhad Dastur, Kiran Supervisor (2019-2020) Dogra, Dean Dr. Diane Purvey, Dr. Arleigh Reichl, Dr.  Richard Le Grand (PSYC): Psychology Honours Committee; Jocelyn Lymburner, Dr. Kyle Matsuba, Dr. Cory Pedersen. Supervisor (2020-2021).  With the in-person 2020 KPU Convocation  Ceremonies being cancelled due to COVID, KPU’s Jocelyn Lymburner (PSYC): Psychology Honours Department of Psychology, under the creative Committee; Supervisor (2020-2021). genius of Ms. Ivy Ng (Psychology Lab Instructor)  Kyle Matsuba (PSYC): Psychology Honours Committee; and Ms. Mary Illical (Psychology Administrative Supervisor (2020-2021). Assistant), hosted the first virtual KPU Psychology  Karen Parhar (PSYC): Psychology Honours Committee; Graduation Ceremony on June 19, 2020. The Supervisor (2020-2021). ceremony provided the department the opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate the  Cory Pedersen (PSYC): Psychology Honours Committee; hard work of our graduates in accomplishing their Supervisor (2020-2021). respective diplomas and degrees.  Shayna Rusticus (PSYC): Psychology Honours Committee;  With Pomp and Circumstance serving as the Supervisor (2020-2021). musical backdrop, Masters of Ceremony, Dr.  Asma Sayed (ENGL): Appointed the Chair of KPU Task Farhad Dastur, welcomed all of us to the Force on Antiracism (TFA). ceremony and guided us through the event. Dean Diane Purvey provided warm and thoughtful opening remarks on behalf of the Faculty of Arts. Dr. Arleigh Reichl, decked out in a suit… that’s right, Arleigh was wearing a suit!!!! delivered the “Commencement” address which was both 19 Faculty of Health

VISION 2023 STRATEGIC PLAN Bachelor of Science Advanced Entry: Sustainability – B2. Foster environmental sustainability  Semester 2 and Semester 5 students in Spring 2020 through our offerings, research and operations semester were able to transition to remote learning in their practice courses in the face of the pandemic, and Nursing Labs: employed a variety of creative learning methods to  Supplies are re-used and re-packaged for use in the labs. successfully meet the course outcomes. Students in Items that cannot be re-used are recycled. semester 6 in Summer 2020 were able to transition to  Students purchase lab kits from the Bookstore. The lab remote learning in their practice courses in the face of the kits contain re-useable supplies that our students use pandemic, and employed a variety of creative learning throughout the duration of their program. methods to successfully meet the course outcomes. Students in semester 3 in Summer 2020 completed their Bachelor of Science Advanced Entry: labs through a variety of online activities to successfully  Having our courses delivered online/remotely, we support meet the objectives, in the face of the pandemic. Looking environmental initiatives by keeping our students out of to the Fall 2020 semester, we continue to use innovative their cars, thus reducing carbon emissions. teaching and learning strategies to support students in meeting course and program outcomes.  Our program encourages students to purchase e- textbooks and we use online resources, decreasing the Graduate Nurse Internationally Educated paper trail in our program.  The Graduate Nurse Internationally Educated (GNIE)  Normal operations pre-COVID-19, included conducting all program continues with three intakes each academic year. meetings in the program via online platforms, keeping GNIE students have transitioned well to the online faculty and students out of their cars saving time, energy learning platform and faculty have stayed in close contact and gas. with students to support their learning and to provide other supports as needed. In the face of the global Health Care Assistant: pandemic faculty are working to ensure students continue  To decrease carbon footprint, we accommodate clinical to receive quality education in order to be successful at placements closer to students’ homes resulting in less the completion of the program. driving, and less emissions impacting the environment.  Faculty and students are provided with current resources  We encourage carpooling, using transit, and the KPU and optimal clinical placements to enhance student shuttle whenever possible. success in the program and to prepare students for  We encourage faculty and students to use the Moodle site employment. Students have been successful in passing and its paperless capacity, thus decreasing photocopying their NCLEX (accreditation) exams and obtaining and paper. employment after graduation. Additionally, our graduates been successful in a variety of settings including acute care  We encourage students to purchase electronic textbooks settings and specialty areas, such as the operating room, and/or used textbooks and materials, when needed. intensive care unit, emergency, and maternity settings.  We offer zero textbook cost (ZTC) courses. We currently Some of our graduates have reported they are continuing only utilize one textbook for the entire program, and their education by enrolling in Master’s degree programs faculty utilize other online resources to supplement once they complete the GNIE program. student learning.  We enhance student success by providing students with a  Recycling is encouraged on campus, in practicum learning environment that supports students to learn placements, labs, and in homes. within a Canadian context. STUDENTS/STUDENT SUCCESS  Students use their previous experience to build upon their knowledge. Our students come from diverse backgrounds Bachelor of Science in Nursing: and are able to incorporate cultural competence into their  The Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program education and practice. continues with two intakes each academic year. Two  Students continue to learn about the richness of cultures cohorts of the new curriculum of the BSN program have and the traditions of Indigenous culture. In GNIE 1118 successfully completed the program; one cohort students present on various cultures including the completed in the Spring 2020 and one in the Summer Indigenous culture. 2020 semester. The Fall semester is well underway in a remote format, due to COVID-19. Students are adjusting  Courses are based on current practice initiatives and well to the alternate modes of delivery with faculty evidence-based practice. The structure, cost and delivery support. of the program is sustainable based on current 20 Faculty of Health cont’d

economic conditions. MANAGING RISK (Note: Emerging risk issues and how they are  During the pandemic, our program continued to be being identified and addressed) sustainable by delivering courses online and within  The COVID-19 global pandemic has directly impacted all practice settings. The program has continued to meet the Faculty of Health programs. Despite the challenges of the needs of students and the nursing profession. pandemic, we continue to move ahead in offering our  Faculty have participated in research activities to enhance programs using creative and innovative means. All theory learning and have been supported to utilize innovative courses continue to be offered online, labs were also teaching methods to meet the learning needs of their offered fully online in the Summer, and will have a small students. Faculty have been able to respond to rapid presence on campus for the Fall. Our practicum and changes in work and society to meet the needs of practice placements were heavily impacted by the students. Currently faculty have been providing remote pandemic and required faculty members to work classes along with face to face delivery of clinical practice creatively in modifying how practice experiences are to support students during the COVID-19 pandemic. delivered. Working closely with the Ministry of Health, Faculty have worked with community partners to fulfill Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills, and Training, and mutual commitments to student learning and experiences. the Health Authorities, we have continued to deliver practice experience in practice settings supplemented by Traditional Chinese Medicine Program online and virtual learning opportunities. BC Student  Despite our practicums being paused during the COVID-19 Practice Education Guidelines for Healthcare Settings pandemic, we continue to provide the best quality of during the COVID-19 Pandemic have been developed by teaching and learning experiences to our students, with a the province to support education during this time, and goal to increase the acupuncture licensing exam pass rate. keep students and faculty safe in settings with the use of We are committed to providing support to our graduates personal protective equipment. The development of as they enter into independent practice and open or join guidelines and processes have been critical, as has been clinics. the consultation and collaboration with KPU’s Provost and COVID-19 Special Advisor. NEW PROGRAMS, POLICIES AND INITIATIVES Bachelor of Science Advanced Entry Health Care Assistant Program  BSN-AE: Students and faculty have employed creative and  Remote learning rolled out this Fall due to COVID-19. This unique ways to deliver content, labs and practice in the is the first time HCAP has offered an online HCA program. face of the pandemic. Students are meeting theory and Faculty are excited to be embarking on this new journey practice objectives through a mix of synchronous and with the students. asynchronous remote learning and creative use of practice  The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Advanced hours to prepare them for graduation. Education, Skills and Training recently announced the Graduate Nurse Internationally Educated “Health Career Access Program”. Our HCAP has been approached to participate in the committees to determine  Currently, during the pandemic, GNIE students are how we can provide the necessary education to learning remotely which has been challenging for lab prospective students that would enroll in this program, courses and clinical. The challenges have been addressed potentially starting in January 2021. Pro Tem Dean, Harjit by providing students with the opportunity to learn new Dhesi is an Advisory Member for this pathway program. skills in their clinical practice environment. Faculty have used post-conference time to practice skills in order to  We are in discussions with the Surrey School District to familiarize students to skills and the equipment. Students establish a Dual Credit partnership for HCAP - possibly have also used virtual simulations to learn. Online classes rolling out in January 2022– currently on hold due to are live so that students continue to build connections and COVID-19. relationships with their instructors and with each other  We were provided with one-time additional funding by COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT (Note: special events, the Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills and Training to intersection with our external community) : be applied towards an extra HCA cohort.  Faculty of Health continues to explore practice placement  Bachelor of Science in Nursing semester 1 students are set partnership opportunities with Health Authorities and to begin their practicum experiences in elementary and initiatives to support communities during the -COVID 19 high schools in Langley and Surrey addressing the arising global pandemic. needs of these populations from a lens of community and public health promotion and primary care.  Bachelor of Science in Nursing Advanced Entry semester 5

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students are set to begin their practicum experiences in Awarded June, 2020, it is a stage 2 partnership grant elementary schools in Langley to address arising needs Inclusive Communities for Older Immigrants (ICOI): within these settings. Developing multi-level, multi-component interventions to  The Traditional Chinese Medicine-Acupuncture program is reduce social isolation and promote connectedness among exploring opportunities to provide acupuncture services in older immigrants in Canada. Investigators, collaborators, Indigenous communities. Our hope is to develop a and partners are from 4 provinces: British Columbia, reciprocal partnership where we can share our services as Alberta, Ontario and Quebec. we learn about the traditional healing practices of the  Dr. Balbir Gurm was also honoured and privileged to judge Indigenous communities. We are also consulting with the Riasat Ali Khan Diversity Awards organized by AMSSA long term care and residential care facilities to develop (Affiliation of Multicultural Societies and Service Agencies partnerships for delivering acupuncture services at these of BC). Awards will be given out in September to one sites. individual and one organization in BC that meets the RECOGNITION (Note: Awards, recognition, publications, public criteria of diversity, creativity, partnership, long term presentations, reviews, media spots, general bragging) service and impact.  Cognitive Health Research Study: KPU with along with  Dr. Balbir Gurm completed work on a free e-book on Tess Kroeker as the Principal Investigator established a relationship violence, Making Sense of a Global Pandemic: research partnership with the Watson Centre Society for Relationship Violence & Working Towards a Violence Free Brain Health. The research team gained ethics approval Society. It has 25 chapters and 512 pages. It covers all from the KPU Research Ethics Board in August 2020. age groups (children to older adult), specific groups Recruitment is now underway with members of the public (women, men, children, Indigenous people, immigrant and who are 65 years of age or older that show signs of mild refugees, and LGBQT2SIA+). It also includes abuse in cognitive impairment. The study will be conducted over a workplaces and post-secondary institutions, legislation, year’s period of time comparing two cohorts with one prevention and the NEVR project and model that can be participating in the Acquired Brain Injury Wellness used to tackle social issues by others. program and those not. Participants will be evaluated  Dr. Balbir Gurm, in collaboration with SASI/UFV director using an array of cognitive assessments to determine if Dr. Satwinder Bains were recently successful in obtaining a physical activity, executive functioning activities and grant of $1.14 million for The Punjabi Canadian Legacy meditation improve or maintain cognitive functioning. Project, now called the South Asian Legacy Project from  Opioid Research Study: Dr. Dianne Symonds as the the provincial government to: create a website with all Principal Investigator continues to lead a team of faculty historical information and links related to the history of members, students, and assistants in moving the study South Asians in BC, do document labour and social history, forward. to create a travelling exhibit and K-12 curricula.  The BSN faculty have been tirelessly attending workshops  Dr. Balbir Gurm served on two Ministers’ round tables in and learning how to better support our students during the last few months for BC government. One on Women in this transitional period. The BSN faculty have been Leadership and the other on anti-racism. exemplary in the work they have done to support each  Judith DeGroot – instructor at KPU for 19.5 years retired other and the students in these uncertain times. this summer and we wish her well!  Lorraine Guild and Judith DeGroot have been working on EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT an Open Education Resource (OER) with support and assistance from Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani and his Teaching &  Faculty members from across Faculty of Health programs Learning team. The OER has been titled "Living Life with continue to work together in developing new and Dementia” and is a free online educational resource for innovative ways of delivering health care education during many different audiences such as, people living with the global pandemic dementia, caregivers and professionals. There will be two  A number of faculty members have completed the “Level streams of the course, one will be for information and the Up” workshop offered by Teaching and Learning other will be an academic stream. Those wishing to do an Commons academic stream of the course will earn a badge. The course has also been accepted into the OER University.  Faculty members continue to work together within their The course is undergoing some finishing touches. programs to modify and track changes in program delivery due to the pandemic for accreditation purposes  Dr. Balbir Gurm is co-investigator (Principal investigator, Sepali Guruge) on a SSHRC $2.5 million grant over 5 years.

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NOTEWORTHY ITEMS: Biology Department also provided kits, distributed through the KPU Surrey Library, for all first year and a few  A new Diversity in Brewing (DIB) award established in June second year courses to enhance the online labs with for KPU Brewing Diploma students raised over $15,000 experiments students can run at home. with the support of more than 35 BC craft breweries and will be awarded in 2020. DIB is a grassroots initiative  Jennifer DeBenedictis (PHYS) created a video to promote dedicated to supporting BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and KPU’s abilities to provide hands-on learning during this People of Colour) and LGBTQ2S+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, time of online instruction. Watch it here: https:// Transgender, Queer and Two-Spirit) in the craft brewing www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG4Ho5gRpBQ community. The objective is to promote and foster a

diverse, respectful, and welcoming brewing industry in Vancouver and beyond. These awards will help support KPU Brewing and Brewery Operations Diploma students who identify as BIPOC or LGBTQ2S+.

 Environmental Protection program staff were able to turn on a dime and respond to the new Covid-19 safety requirements by creating innovative delivery methods for a program that requires hands-on training to ensure that our graduates meet the needs of the workplace and that we satisfy our national accreditation requirements. Modified labs were created for the Air Quality course such that students could carry out measurements and become familiar with equipment at home. They met a bigger  Martina Solano Bielen (BREW) organized and created challenge in their Contaminated Sites course: lab staff and individual lab kits for first-year Brewing Diploma students instructors designed a way for students to learn how to taking Brewing Chemistry (HOPS 1212) remotely during purge and sample from a well (we have four teaching the Fall 2020 term. The kits included various to assist wells on the Langley campus) while observing the required students with their hands-on learning while participating safety precautions. We are pleased to report that there is in online classes and labs. Kits were mailed to Brewing nothing to report: everybody stayed safe, there were no students around the world, including Brazil, Japan, and the incidents of any sort, and the expected learning outcomes UK. were achieved.  The Physics Department has been working through the summer to create new lab kits for the Fall 2020 slate of Physics for Modern Technology (PMT) courses. These kits have allowed courses such as PHYS 1600 Introduction to Modern Technology, and PHYS 3710 Applied Optics, to run entirely online, yet provide students with hands-on, practical, experiential learning. It should be noted that the Raise 3D Pro2 printer, acquired this past Spring, has been instrumental in fabricating parts for the lab kits. We are also extremely grateful for the continuing services of the KPU Library in distributing and receiving our lab kits. The

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NEW PROGRAMS, POLICIES AND INITIATIVES: including India, Japan, Ecuador, Mexico and the US. The AMA sessions were organized and co-hosted by DeAnn  The fourth annual non-credit Brewing Chemistry Basics Bremner and student recruiter Hannah Cenaiko (FSO). course took place Aug. 17-27 and was offered online for the first time. The course, taught by Martina Solano Bielen  Two Society of Nutrition Education and Behavior (SNEB) (BREW), was designed to help new Brewing Diploma Higher Education Division Research Awards were received students prepare for first-year Brewing Chemistry, as well at the annual SNEB conference in July 2020 for work done as helping local brewers improve their brewing by HSCI graduate Rimi Afroze for her honours thesis knowledge. The course was coordinated by DeAnn project examining factors contributing to health and Bremner (Communications, Events and CPS Coordinator). wellness in emerging adults. Collaborators included Charvi Gulati (2019 HSCI graduate), Jose G. Mora-Almanza  From June to August, the KPU brewery on the Langley (MITACS Globalink Intern 2019), Vidhi Thakkar (Research campus underwent an upgrade to its boiler and glycol Associate), and Karen Davison (HSCI faculty). lines. The construction project was overseen by KPU Facilities and KPU Brewing instructors Alek Egi (BREW), Jon  Horticulture grads, Corne and Paul Moerman (picture Howe (BREW) and Derek Kindret (BREW). below from Greenhouse Canada) received Top 4 Under 40 awards from Greenhouse Canada.  Kathy Dunster (HORT) was able to complete 15 weeks of field research in the flax field at KPU Richmond Garden City lands. Fifteen videos were filmed, edited and shared showing the best flax harvest and seed increase in 3 years due to spring and early summer rains. Dunster collaborated with EartHand Gleaners to ret the flax at Trillium Park in collaboration with the City of Vancouver Park Board. This Fall she will be preparing the flax seeds in the lab, and will be processing the fibre for qualitative tests, and finally spinning into thread for quantitative tests. STUDENTS:  KPU Brewing hosted two online Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions featuring live conversations with instructors Martina Solano Bielen (BREW) and Derek Kindret (BREW). The sessions were hosted on July 16 and 23, and attracted attendees from across Canada and internationally,

Photo: New glycol lines in the KPU Brew Lab brewery as part of the renovation/upgrades in 2020. 24 Faculty of Science and Horticulture cont’d

 Kathy Dunster (HORT) held online meetings with Urban  On Aug. 27, 2020, Farm Country Brewing in Langley hosted Ecosystems degree students over the summer helping another brew day with Destination Langley and KPU them develop their capstone research projects during Brewing to make a collaboration beer to promote Langley COVID-19 restrictions. She successfully found City, KPU Brewing and Farm Country on the BC Ale Trail. opportunities with external agencies, industry and NGOs (Note: the initial beer was brewed earlier in 2020 and to connect students to projects. meant to be released in April but was cancelled due to COVID). Instructors Jon Howe (BREW) and Derek Kindret  A partnership was developed with KPU’s and McMaster (BREW) participated in brewing Higher Learning which will University’s Health Science undergraduate programs to be released in September 2020. work on a CIHR-funded COVID-19 project. Ten McMaster U students are working with KPU HSCI and psychology  From Aug. 13-19, KPU’s Future Students Office (FSO) team students to evaluate Chinese and English language COVID- started filming videos on the Langley and Richmond 19 research literature. campuses for the upcoming KPU Virtual Open House (VOH) featuring activities/tours presented by Martina  Kathy Dunster (HORT), with support from IT, updated, Solano Bielen (BREW), Dua’a Riyal (BIOL), Andy Smith configured, and uploaded software and satellite images (SUSTAG) and Catherine Chow (CHEM). Background onto 16 new GPS units for the HORT 3250 class. information was presented by advisor Nick Bransford COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: (FSH) with an official FSH welcome from Dean Betty Worobec (FSH). The videos will be released during the  On Aug. 5, 2020, the BC Beer Awards (BCBA) held their VOH on Oct. 3, 2020. annual collaboration brew with the Brewery of the Year KPU Brewing (2019) and Rookie of the Year Île Sauvage Brewing (2019) hosted by BREWHALL in Vancouver. Jon

Howe (BREW) and Derek Kindret (BREW) joined BREWHALL head brewer Kerry Dyson and Île Sauvage brewers for the brew day. Proceeds from the sale of the

resulting beer, Class Act--- a boysenberry dry-hopped sour ale, will go towards Diversity in Brewing, Pacific Associations of First Nations Women Scholarship Fund,

and Hogan’s Alley Society Vancouver. Sponsors of Class Act include Altro Labels, Brewers Supply Group, Imperial Yeast and Vessel Packaging Co. Label art was created by

Michelle Lee of Broadview Design.

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 KPU Brewing and Horticulture students and alumni for the Watershed’ for the Association for Literature, participated in a new KPU Future Students Office (FSO) Environment, and Culture in Canada on July 10. ‘Where are they now?’ campaign by submitting videos  Karen Davison (HSCI) was co-presenter for the Chronic sharing how their education and experience at KPU helped Disease Network Presentation of Mental Health them get where they are today. FSH alumni who Commission of Canada Project ‘Concurrent Mental participated include KPU Brewing grads Adam Keil, Illnesses & Physical Health Conditions & the Availability of Mountainview Brewing, and Kristy Tattrie, Fraser Mills Effective Responses to Them’. Fermentation Company; as well as Horticulture Plant Health student and IPM specialist, Liam Buirs.  Karen Davison (HSCI) gave two presentations for the Society of Nutrition Education and Behavior.  FSO also created faculty videos with instructors Nancy More (BREW) on Aug. 6 and Jon Howe (BREW) on Aug. 13.  Janis Matson (HORT) was interviewed about home Videos were co-organized by DeAnn Bremner and student gardening trends for an article in the Vancouver Sun. recruiter Hannah Cenaiko (FSO). PUBLICATIONS:  Janis Matson and Diane Scott (HORT) built a scarecrow for  Lee Beavington (BIOL) published the article, ‘Curating a the annual Art's Nursery's 6th Annual Scarecrow Festival in Future Earth.’ In the SFU Educational Review. Surrey. The kick-off event is September 19th and the scarecrows will be on display until Halloween. The  Karen Davison (HSCI) co-authored ‘Passive Commuting is fundraiser supports several charities and community Associated with Weight Status of Emerging Adults’ and groups every year. ‘Nutrition and Other Wellness Indicators Are Associated with Healthy Weight Status in Emerging Adults’ publications appearing in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.

FUNDING:  Karen Davison (HSCI) will be the co-principal investigator of international study “Frailty & the Incidence and Course of COVID-19 among 500,000 Older Adults in the United Kingdom Biobank.” funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research and Canadian Frailty Network (2020 to 2022). The project will examine how frailty, genetic predisposition, health-related determinants, and environmental factors contribute to the incidence and prognosis of COVID-19. Collaborating institutions include University of Toronto, BC Institute of Technology, Simon Fraser University, University of Victoria, University of British Columbia, and University College London.

PRESENTATIONS: AWARDS:  Kathy Dunster (HORT) was a keynote presenter on June 9  Lee Beavington (BIOL) received the Mitacs/SFU Research for a Strathcona Community Garden online event Award ($6000) to support the development of the discussing creative ways to manage Himalayan Blackberry ‘Ecology in 1m2 project’, a collaborative project between and setting ground rules and protocols (Vancouver Park FSH and Faculty of Arts (Fine Arts). Board) for a follow-up face-to-face session with the RECOGNITION: gardening community at SCG.  Kathy Dunster (HORT) was interviewed with The Runner  Lee Beavington (BIOL) gave guest lectures entitled,‘ Colour regarding the Urban Ecosystems collaboration with Native and ecology’ and ‘The science of relationships’ to KPU Education College. Fine Arts students (FINA 1166).  More than 25 media articles were published in outlets  Lee Beavington (BIOL) presented ‘Science as story: such as MSN News, Yahoo News, PsychCentral, Medical Designing active and relevant learning’ at the Learning Xpress, Science Mag covering Karen Davison’s (HSCI) CLSA Together Conference: A New Decade of Imagining in study: Fuller-Thomson E, Lin S, Davison KM, Taler V, Saab Education at SFU on July 25. Z, Kobayashi KM, Tong H. Nutrition, immigration and  Lee Beavington (BIOL) co-presented ‘Sweet Water: Poems 26 Faculty of Science and Horticulture cont’d

health determinants are linked to verbal fluency among Zachary Rezler. Topic: Cardiovascular Disease and COVID- Anglophone adults in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on 19: A Focus on Emerging Adults Aging (CLSA). Journal of Nutrition, Health, and Aging 2020  This year’s Canadian Association of Physicists Congress, June 1;24:672–680. originally planned to be held at McMaster University, was  Nancy More (BREW) and KPU Brewing were featured in instead hosted virtually on June 8-12 with free two articles in What’s Brewing. registration. A number of Physics department members took advantage of the free registration to attend. In EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT: particular, the workshops and seminars associated with  FSH held their annual (and first ‘virtual’) Faculty of the the Division of Physics Education were very well attended. Whole meeting on September 1. Dr. Sandy Vanderburgh,  Kathy Dunster (HORT) participated in an info session for Provost and Vice-President Academic and Dr. Rajiv the new 2020 UN SDG Open Pedagogy Faculty Fellows, an Jhangiani, Action Vice Provost, Teaching and Learning, HR seminar on Hiring Best Practices, and was part of the presented updates on COVID-19 challenges and the shift search committee for the new FSH Associate Dean. She to online learning. Dean Betty Worobec gave a faculty was also part of a faculty collaboration to craft an Anti- update, welcomed new employees and recognized long Racism statement for KFA and was an invited participant service awards. in a special zoom meeting of the Toronto Public Spaces  The Physics Journal Club continued to meet during the Network regarding BLM. summer with discussions on some very topical issues.  From June 8-30, Kathy Dunster (HORT) worked Takashi Sato (PHYS) led the discussion on the paper, collaboratively online with a group of young BIPOC ‘Video killed the writing assignment’ by Nicole Zellner, landscape architecture interns and students crafting a while Laura Flinn (PHYS) led discussions on ‘Urban Legends position paper with specific demands to the provincial and in Education’, based on the paper by Kirschner and van national professional organizations and post-secondary Merrienboer. design schools regarding the systemic racism impacting  Barnabe Dossou Assogba (BIOL) was invited by American Black, Indigenous and other racialized members of the Society for Microbiology (ASM) to review abstracts for the Canadian design community. upcoming Annual Biomedical Research Conference for  Kathy Dunster (HORT) had her first meeting with the Minority Students (ABRCMS 2020). Barnabe has been Canadian Society of Landscape Architects College of reviewing abstracts for this conference since 2016, but Fellows (following her election to the College). Since the this time, he was invited as an abstract reviewer & judge CSLA College of Fellows was established in 1964, only 229 during the conference. members (out of over 10,000 landscape architects Canada  Janis Matson (HORT) attended a two-day conference with -wide over the years) have been given the prestigious the Industry Training Authority where she conducted designation “FCSLA”, making it a true distinction and a peer review of the level 2 and level 3 apprenticeship honour conferred by the Society. Because of COVID-19 the tests. installation ceremony was delayed to May 2021 in Ottawa.  Karen Davison (HSCI) participated in Fulbright Canada  Kathy Dunster (HORT) attended the following talks: Alumni Program discussion “Creating an inclusive post-  June 1 – Lessons from Rojava Series “What if women secondary educational approach". are the vanguard” – Kurdistan Independence  Karen Davison (HSCI) attended “Insights in Tableau: An Movement Applied Data Visualization Course” presented by KPU  June 4 – “Listening to Seeds” – a seminar by Vivian Research Associate Dr. Vidhi Thakkar for Population Data Sansour – Bethlehem Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and BC (PopData). Research  June 11 – Face-to-face hands-on session with  Karen Davison (HSCI) was an Invited Canadian Institute of EartHand Gleaners and Strathcona Community Health Research Peer Reviewer for the COVID-19 Mental Garden on harvesting invasive Himalayan blackberries Health & Substance Use Service Needs and Delivery and making rope (value-added management and program. utility before green waste)  Karen Davison (HSCI) was a reviewer for Royal Society of  August 16 – Lasqueti Island Nature Conservancy – Canada’s Alice Wilson Postdoctoral Awards (CIHR AGM and field visit to potential land conservation site candidates). to consider baseline inventory needs  Karen Davison (HSCI) was an invited thesis co-supervisor  Joined the New Westminster Museum and Archives for McMaster University Honours health science student, on a zoom curator talk about the History of Plants in New Westminster 27 Office of Research, Innovation & Graduate Studies

NEW RESEARCH ETHICS BOARD (REB) CHAIR RESEARCH CONTINUITY GUIDELINES Dr. Tara Lyons from the Faculty of Criminology was appointed A draft of Research Continuity Guidelines received input from the REB Chair effective September 1, 2020. Dr. Lyons’ research various stakeholders across KPU. It will be published following examines how legal and health structures impact the health of discussion at the Polytechnic University Executive. marginalized communities. Specifically, her work examines how intersecting social and structural factors shape the health and wellbeing of LGBTQI2+ persons. Her research areas are LIST OF RESEARCH INVOLVING COVID-19 substance use, drug policy, gender, sexuality, and health. Four research projects at KPU related to COVID-19 were Thanks are due to the outgoing Chair, Dr. Farhad Dastur for his submitted for listing in the central registry https:// contribution to the REB which included the transition to online www.bcahsn.ca/covid-19-response/covid-19-research- services during COVID-19 and the creation of the REB Directive inventory/. on Research Involving Human Participants During the COVID- 19 Public Health Emergency. FROM THE OFFICE OF GRADUATE STUDIES

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN FOOD SYSTEMS AND SECURITY REB MEMBERSHIP CHANGES The launch of the graduate certificate in food systems and Following an open and competitive selection process as per security has been deferred to late-summer 2021. Development KPU ’s RS1 Research Involving Human Participants Procedure, of a Program Advisory Committee is underway. Additional the list of new and continuing REB members effective marketing efforts are being implemented. Entry-GPA September 1, 2020 is: Dr. Tara Lyons, Chair, Criminology; Dr. requirements are also being updated. Paul Adams, Biology; Dr. Ari Goelman, Business; Dr. Irina Ceric,

Criminology; Joan Posivy, Community Member; Dr. Richard Le Grand, Psychology; and Dr. Katie Warfield, Journalism FROM THE OFFICE OF RESEARCH SERVICES (currently on a temporary leave of absence). Congratulations DR. ASMA SAYED IS THE SECOND CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR are due to the new and renewing members. (CRC) AT KPU We would also like to thank outgoing members Mr. John After eight years, we have our second CRC at KPU. Please see Anderson, Dr. Karen Davison, Nicole Green, and the outgoing media story https://www.kpu.ca/news/2020/08/05/kpu- chair, Dr. Farhad Dastur for their dedication and service on the researcher-awarded-canada-research-chair-south-asian- REB over the years. literary-and-cultural for more information.

RESEARCH ETHICS BC (REBC) CANADA RESEARCH CONTINUITY EMERGENCY FUND – STAGE 1 KPU was added to the REBC network and to the Provincial KPU was awarded $31,000 for Wage Support for Research Research Ethics Portal (RISe) for multi-jurisdictional research in Related Personnel. Following an open call to the KPU April 2020. To date, there is one harmonized file that KPU is community, the funds will be distributed proportionately to all part of so far. eligible applications.

USE OF ANIMALS IN TEACHING AND RESEARCH EDI STIPEND Dr. Layne Myhre, Biology is serving as the inaugural chair of KPU’s nascent Animal Care Committee ([email protected]). KPU has been awarded $50,000 in one-time project funding Currently, the ACC also consists of (confirmed): James towards the development of an EDI Action Plan to meet CRC Callander (technician), Dr. Kent Mullinix (ISFS representative), requirements. Dr. Mike Bomford (Sustainable Agriculture), Dr. Cameron Lait (Horticulture Faculty) and Michael Ke (Student, Biology). A search has been initiated for community members and a HEALTH RESEARCH SPECIALIST research veterinarian. Dr. Sanja Jovanovic joined the Office of Research Services on a We are working our way through academic governance to contract starting mid-July 2020 to provide expertise in health determine processes for pedagogical merit reviews. research. Dr. Jovanovic is based out of Halifax Nova Scotia and Applications for use of animals will be facilitated through will be working remotely, as we all are. Romeo. The University of the Fraser Valley has kindly agreed to Dr. Jovanovic is a health research services and outcomes help develop its capacity. Drafts of policy and procedure are in scientist with both medical and clinical research experience. final stages of development. 28 Office of Research and Research Services cont’d

She obtained her MD degree from Medical School University of EFFICACY OF TRICHODERMA FUNGAL BIOCONTROL AGENTS Zagreb, Croatia and MSc in Community Health and FOR THE CONTROL OF SNOW MOLD DISCEASE IN TURFGRASS Epidemiology from Dalhousie University, Halifax. Her main research contributions have involved observational, real-world The cost of chemical controls for snow mold disease in evidence studies in the field of cardiology and oncology. She Western Canada is greater than that for all other diseases of strives to continue contributing to improving cardiovascular turfgrass. Dr. Deborah Henderson and her team seek to (CV) outcomes by generating real-world evidence on survival identify the pathogens responsible for snow mold on golf benefits and patient safety of various CV treatment options. courses in British Columbia using genetic tools and test the Her other research interests include improving diabetes care efficacy of local Trichoderma isolates in laboratory and field and outcomes, cancer genomic studies, cancer biomarkers, trials for the control of pink snow mold. Trichoderma isolates public health research, and most recently COVID-19 that show pathogen suppression in research trials will be epidemiology. Dr. Jovanovic’s LinkedIn profile is at https:// considered for registration in Canada as the Institute for www.linkedin.com/in/sanja3-sj/. Sustainable Horticulture moves forward with their first Trichoderma product registration. This $12,000 project was funded by not-for profit industry organization, Western FROM KPU’S RESEARCH LABORATORIES, CENTRES, AND Canada Turfgrass Association. INSTITUTES LOW COST NOVEL PRODUCTION OF NATIVE TRICHODERMA RESPONSE OF GREENHOUSE CUCUMBER TO A SOLIOS This project, funded by the BC Ministry of Agriculture – MICRONUTRIENT FORMULATION Growing Forward 3 program, was awarded to the Institute for This greenhouse trial with cucumbers and a single solios Sustainable Horticulture (ISH) in the amount of $190,000 to micronutrient was funded by Lucent BioSciences Inc. for ISH to finalize Health Canada’s data package for the first native conduct a small scale trail to answer questions which will product (Trichoderma atroviride) destined for use in potted inform larger scale trials or determine if a different crop ornamental propagation. ISH will hold the registration, which is direction should be the focus of KPU trials. expected to be available for the market 1.5-2 years after submission to Health Canada. EXTENSION SERVICES FOR PEMCAP ORGANICS RASPBERRY BREEDING PROGRAM TISSUE CULTURE SERVICES The Institute for Sustainable Food Systems (ISFS) will provide extension services in regard to the Pemberton Haven Farm in Funded by the British Columbia Blueberry Council, this project Pemberton, BC. ISFS services will include guidance regarding will provide laboratory services for raspberry tissue culture integrated production and practices and systems focusing on, production of 6000-6500 raspberry seedlings in support of the but not limited to, soils management and compost production/ BC Berry breeding program managed by the BC Blueberry use, as well as potential farm site production suitability Council, Raspberry Industry Development Council, and BC assessment. Strawberry Growers’ Association.

LIFESPAN COGNITION LABORATORY FERMENTED MOGROSIDES FEASIBILITY TEST Dr. Daniel Bernstein and his collaborators (other scholars, This project (worth $40,985) is funded by NutraEx Food Inc. undergraduate students, and post-docs) published several who want to develop a novel microbe-based technology for papers this year. The selections published in 2020 include: mogroside production using microbial fermentation and produce high-quality mogroside sweetening products. This  Metacognitive hindsight bias project will test the feasibility of this biotechnology. It will be  The integrative memory model is detailed, but skimps on conducted by NutraEx partnering with ISH. false memories and development.  A computational approach to the revelation effect PROOF OF CONCEPT STUDY FOR VECTORITE CRC VECTORED BY  Future planning may promote prospective false memories HONEY BEES IN HIGHBUSH BLUEBERRY  Diverse perspectives on interdisciplinarity from the Members of the College of the Royal Society of Canada Funded by Bee Vectoring Technologies International Inc., this proof of concept study will address specific questions before  Truthiness and law: Nonprobative photos bias perceived considering a large scale, honey bee vectoring study with the credibility in forensic contexts biofungicide CR7, Clonostachys rosea, in highbush blueberry  People who cheat on tests accurately predict their for management of Botrytis and Mummy berry diseases. performance on future tests. 29 Office of Research and Research Services cont’d

The laboratory has another five manuscripts submitted or meeting. The project team for this award also includes Charvi revised and submitted for publication, and another three Gulati, another health science honours student (and former manuscripts close to submission. research assistant of Dr. Karen Davison) who is starting the computer science program at UBC in September, Jose Mora who was a 2019/20 Mitacs Globalink Intern that also worked APPLIED GENOMICS CENTRE on the project (medical student at University of Guadalajara), KPU was successful at the Letter of Intent stage for an NSERC and Vidhi Thakkar (current research associate). Build Innovation Enhancement (IE) grant and was invited, Congratulations to everyone! along with a select few, to submit a full application due EXTERNAL NEWS AND UPDATES November 13, 2020. If successful, the 5-year IE grant would total over $2M in NSERC operating funds, in addition to TRI-AGENCY UPDATE ON COVID-19 AND IMPACT ON POLICIES, matching partner and KPU contributions. The application also PROGRAMS, AND OPERATIONS includes an additional ~$2M of infrastructure support A reminder that the SSHRC Insight Grants submission deadline requested from Canada Foundation for Innovation and BC for 2020 will be advanced to October 1st from October 15th, in Knowledge Development Fund, and related infrastructure response to a system failure resulting in delays during the operating funds. If successful, the grant will support the October 2019 proposal process. formation and operation of the emerging Applied Genomics Centre (formerly the KPU Bio-Innovation Laboratory). The centre will focus on supporting industry research and MITACS UPDATES development in the area of agriculture innovation through applied genomics and metabolomics. As communicated by Mitacs: Mitacs and NSERC have launched a new joint application between the Mitacs Accelerate and the NSERC CCI Applied Research and Development (ARD) NUTRITION INFORMATICS RESEARCH programs. More details will be shared soon. Two research awards were presented at the Society of KPU is also exploring multiple internships through Mitacs as Nutrition Education and Behavior (SNEB) Annual Conference in part of their Business Strategy Internship Program. July for two abstract submissions that were made from a former health science honours research student’s research projects (Rimi Afroze; graduated in June 2018) that focused on ACKNOWLEDGEMENT health behaviours of university students. Rimi currently works The Office of the AVP, Research, Innovation, and Graduate for the State of Washington in health services and finished a Studies acknowledges funding from the federal Research MSc in Health Care Management and Leadership in June. The Support Fund in support of its operations and services. two awards, the SNEB Higher Education Division Research Awards, recognize master's and doctoral level student research in nutrition education. Winners were also recognized in the Conference proceedings and during the annual business

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EXPERIENCE: WE WILL business and real estate development consultant. Over the years, Mike has amassed extensive customer service skills from A1. ENHANCE THE EXPERIENCE OF OUR STUDENTS working in tourism as a river rafting guide, owner and Innovation in The Classroom: manager. He even spent three winter seasons as Manager, Guest Services and Events at Big White Ski Resort. Today, This semester with the shift to online learning, the ENTR3110 Mike’s students benefit greatly from his sales, customer Event Project was shifted to a Community Resource Project. service background, his volunteer roles and consultancy Students were introduced to the UN's SDGs and were asked to experience. choose one about which they were passionate. Amanda Bickell tasked her students with developing a resource for a Mike’s passion is experiential education. One of his favourite community that would have impact to bring us closer to courses is ENTR 4140- Sales. During Mike’s time coaching the achieving their chosen SDG. They were allowed to keep their sales class, ENTR students have developed over $830K of resource private within the class, or publish it at large if they partnerships with national and regional companies. In 2016 chose to. and 2018, two of Mike’s classes broke the 2008 all-time sales record by securing corporate partnerships worth $190K and Projects included a story book to help children understand the $155K, respectively. Mike’s current and relevant business Black Lives Matter movement, a COVID infographic to help experience has been a source of inspiration and credibility in young adults in Surrey understand how important their role is his classroom. Mike understands he needs to build on his in keeping the pandemic under control, a tech reference guide sales development to ensure relevant and contemporary sales for BC parents who are having to, or wanting to home school education in his teaching. Most recently, Mike was invited to their children, and a video about how we in Canada can help speak at the 2020 Sales Educators Forum at Conestoga College. China to achieve their environmental targets. Mike works hard to incorporate his reputable network One group chose to make their resource public. It is a website connections, his expertise and active professional about how university students can help to end world hunger. development in his ENTR sales courses. He has also provided https://wordpress.kpu.ca/endhunger/ important insights to the ENTR department program review and the upcoming refresh of the program. A2. ENRICH THE EXPERIENCE OF OUR EMPLOYEES Mike’s support of business students, enthusiasm for teaching Welcome to Mike Ford, Entrepreneurial Leadership Program, and learning, education, management and customer service Interim Associate Dean experience will serve him well in this post-secondary The School of Business is pleased to announce that Mike Ford, administration role. Please join me in welcoming Mike Ford to ENTR faculty member, is the successful candidate for the the School of Business Leadership team. interim associate dean opportunity in the School of Business Staffing Update: beginning September 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020. It is with mixed emotions that the School of Business Mike has a Bachelor’s of Commerce, Specialization: announces that Mr. Loren Coutts, Associate Dean, with the Entrepreneurship, from the University of Victoria. Shortly after School of Business will be leaving KPU to pursue a fantastic graduation, Mike pursued a lifelong dream of starting his own opportunity in the North West Territories. river rafting expedition company. After 15 years in tourism, he decided to change industries. To facilitate this transition, Mike Although this is a positive career move for Loren, it is a loss for completed his Masters of Business Administration, the School of Business; he will be missed. Loren has Specialization: Finance at the University of British Columbia. contributed exemplary leadership by way of his analytical and While at UBC, Mike acted as the Ombudsperson for his cohort, rationale thought process and attention to detail. And for which he enjoyed. After completing his MBA, Mike became a those of us who have had the pleasure to work with him consultant in the real estate development industry. He helped closely also know Loren balances kindness and fairness in all companies to lease or sell their surplus facilities and that he does. properties. Mike has completed many exciting projects for The Deans’ Office staff and faculty would like to thank Loren organizations including Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, BC Hydro, for his hard work and focus during his time as Associate Dean UBC and TransLink. He is also a Director for Metro Vancouver in the KPU School of Business. We wish him all the best in his Crime Stoppers Foundation Board, where he is responsible for new role at Aurora College. building corporate partnerships with this exciting organization. School of Business Virtual Annual General Meeting 2020 Mike has been teaching with the School of Business since 2014. As a full-time instructor, he has concentrated his The School of Business Dean’s office hosted the 2020 Annual teaching in business strategy and business to business sales in General Meeting on August 25, 2020, chaired by Stephanie the ENTR program. He has also continued his industry Howes, Dean and MC by Travis Higo, DBM. The meeting was connection and professional development as a part-time, successfully held on MS Teams with over 140 attendees. We 31 School of Business cont’d welcomed speakers such as Dr. Sandy Vanderburgh, VPA, Mark Our guest employers included: Diotte and Romy Kozak, KFA Representatives, and many of our own faculty members to provide important committee  Alim Sunderji, Director, Common and Technical Services at updates and Faculty Council business topics for decisions made Fraser Health by the Faculty of the whole.  Lorne Blouin, Fulfillment Centre Manager at Staples  Raluca Vetrici, HR Generalist at GEOTAB We want to thank Lesley McCannell and Marla McMullen, Human Resources Management faculty, for their insightful and  Brenna Denexter, HR Coordinator at Great Little Box illuminating presentation on Inclusivity and Diversity. They Company both begin their one course release each this academic year to  Vanessa Huynh, CPHR, HR Generalist at VersaCold support informed cultural changes and possibly curricular Logistics Services changes within the School of Business. For the last hour of the KPU Open House AGM, we had the opportunity to recognize our Chairs, (current, outgoing and newly incoming) for all their hard work During the month of August, 2020, a variety of School of and leadership along with our long service colleagues. We had Business representatives participated in pre-recorded the opportunity to celebrate our retirees who left the School segments for KPU’s first ever Virtual Open House. The Virtual between September 1, 2019 to August 31, 2020. The Open House goes live on Saturday, October 3, providing a presentations and speeches from colleagues on behalf of the creative, digital connection between KPU, prospective students retirees were a mix of accounts of inspirational contributions and community partners. Dean Stephanie Howes, Associate these faculty members provided over the years and humorous Dean Don Reddick, Public Relations Program faculty member stories with emotional goodbyes. Andrew Frank, and former KPU Case Analysis Network president and alumnus Samuel Garzitto all highlighted the The AGM was a successful virtual meeting, despite the tough unique programs and opportunities accessible through a months leading up to the day. It was a pleasure for everyone business education at Canada’s number one polytechnic catch-up together, albeit virtually. We look forward to our university. The School of Business would like to thank Kim Professional Development Day during Reading Break 2021, McGill, Silvana Sulstarova, Jenna Afanasiff, the rest of the where we will all meet again virtually – with the hope of Events Team and Jelly Marketing & PR for their coordination of possible in-person gathering always on our minds. this much-anticipated event. A3. DELIGHT OUR FRIENDS IN THEIR KPU EXPERIENCE SUSTAINABILITY: WE WILL Our 4th Industry Insider hosted for Post Baccalaureate and B1. EMBRACE ALL CULTURES AND PROMOTE A RENEWED, Graduate students in the School of Business was provided AUTHENTIC APPROACH TO INDIGENIZATION virtually on Tuesday, September 15, 2020, from 11:00am - 12:30pm. Open Education– Student Authors The Industry Insider Series sessions are informative networking Question: "What to do when a course doesn't have a opportunities, set up as a moderated panel discussion, where textbook"? our students can meet, listen, converse and ask questions with Answer: "Invite students to create the textbook. local employers. The event was organized by Magdalena Mot, Make it open, make it purposeful, and provide a Career Coach, and moderated by Donald Reddick, Associate framework for students to develop anti-racist, Dean. 40 participants attended (including faculty, students, gender-inclusive, and accessible content for and staff) where they had the opportunity to learn from our audiences who benefit most from free and open guest employers about their specific organizations, about their content." roles, and even learned about what these employers are looking for when hiring. This event helps our students to make KPU students enrolled in the 4th year “Integrated Marketing informed career decisions and prepare effectively for their Communications” course during the Summer 2020 term future professional growth. embarked on an ambitious project all while working remotely under the guidance of Andrea Niosi, KPU Marketing Instructor. “Thank you again for inviting me to the Insider Event The project assigned was to create an open marketing yesterday. I truly enjoyed the experience and look resource for non-profits, activists, and advocacy groups who forward to hopefully participating in more Kwantlen often have the least amount of marketing dollars and the Industry events. Although it would have been nice to fewest number of marketing resources to research, design, see everyone in person, the Zoom meeting was so plan, and execute marketing campaigns. smooth. I thought that the event went really well and it was great to hear from other employers and By drawing on open resources and the success of activist their experiences.” Brenna Denexter movements behind Black Lives Matter, the Wet’suwet’en land defenders, and Hogan’s Alley Society (just to name a few),

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revisions they carried out, through the knowledge they acquired undergoing open research for the first time, and through the wisdom shared by a number of guest speakers. In true upgrading fashion, students’ grades were determined through self-assessment at the end of the course. Link to the Open Guide to IMC: https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/ openimc/ Read the Introduction written by all 34 students: https:// kpu.pressbooks.pub/openimc/front-matter/introduction-to- the-open-imc-guide/ students developed a comprehensive IMC Guide that takes the CREATIVITY: WE WILL reader through the process of creating successful marketing C1. INCREASE THE LEVELS OF ACTIVITY, FUNDING AND campaigns. INTENSITY OF RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP The Open Guide to IMC includes a number of free and open Toby The Robot Update - Dr. Qussay Salih—APPLIED LEARNING resources ("OERs") that would otherwise exist behind paywalls & Research Experience for students or cost handsomely from an ad agency. Templates have been Dr. Qussay Salih and his students, Christopher Torunski and developed for crafting Creative Briefs, developing Content Nick Raposo, successfully programed Toby the robot to pick up Calendars, and designing Brand Identities. Students created an object. the Open Guide for IMC to be fully Accessible as well as interactive with over 60 H5P content types. This project has been an incredible opportunity for these students to apply what they have learned various classes As a means of framing this project, students first began by within the Computer Science and Business Technology taking a deep-dive into foundational concepts that inspired programs. The have incorporated multiple disciplines, over this project: they researched the United Nations’ 17 numerous semesters in their involvement with the Toby Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs"); the Open project, not only in computer programing, but also drawing on Movement; the Creative Commons; and various open tools what they have learning in mathematics, networking and and resources that can be used in open development. After software engineering classes to name a few. The have been becoming familiar with these important themes, students able to help produce an Artificial Intelligence (AI) robot were assigned into various groups which then began a 13- capable of picking up a specific object. week processing of researching, writing, curating, editing, and attributing. By the end of the term, each student had had the The main focus of this project has been on Machine Learning, a opportunity to work in every part of the Open Guide, allowing subsector of (AI), which is a current industry trend and the them to apply their existing marketing knowledge and graphic future of in the field of robotics. The idea and inspiration design skills while also developing new ones. behind this project was to give these students a hands on experience while: As many (faculty) may wonder, “but how do you grade such a project?”, it is worth mentioning that students created  Learning new programming skills ePortfolios (many of which are now CC licensed) that captured  Applying programming skills, mathematics and software their individual and team contributions. In detailed reflections, engineering students narrated their learning experiences through the  Handling new complex technology challenges  Creating a high level of enthusiasm for AI, so that they would be motivated to persevere through inevitable frustrations and failures relying upon their project management and problem solving skills  Empower students to use the skills they have learned to explore high tech positions with leading technology companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, MDA or within the automotive industry and other large manufacturing companies.  Furthering student interest and understanding of the benefits of the relationship between humans and machines

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Drive and influence future KPU research in the field of AI, to C2. INCREASE INNOVATION IN TEACHING, LEARNING AND broaden KPU and the School of Business’ image and presence CURRICULUM in technological innovation Open Education News The Toby project has the potential to inspire curriculum A team of School of Business faculty including Arley Cruthers, development in this field, attracting future domestic and Melissa Ashman, John Grant, and Peg Fong (all from the International students to KPU. Applied Communications & Public Relations Department) and Dr. Salih is interested in working with the School of Business to Dr. Seanna Takacs from Accessibility Services recently received establish a robotic student competition. Events such as these, a grant from BCcampus to develop an online open course enrich both student and faculty experience and prepare our (OOC) in business communications. The resources in the students to find successful careers in the technology industry. course incorporate principles of universal design for learning; diversity, equity, and inclusion; Indigenous pedagogies; and Projects such as this have the potential for student open pedagogy. It is the first OOC – and the first in business collaboration and embedding Information Technology into communications – completed for BCcampus. other discipline’s projects in departments throughout KPU, such as nursing and horticulture/agriculture. The team curated two open textbooks -- Business Writing for Everyone by Arley Cruthers and Student Engagement Activities Background and Update: for Business Communications by Melissa Ashman, Arley The first phase was successfully completed December 2019. Cruthers, Sarah Duncan, John Grant, Karen Inkster Vance, and Phase 2 started February 2020. Although the pandemic began Panteli Tritchew – and developed more than 70 additional to change the landscape of our daily lives and created resources, including weekly lesson plans, sample assignments, uncertainty for our student’s future education, Dr. Salih, videos, interactive H5P activities, PowerPoint slides, and audio project leader and supervisor, took the initiative to encourage recordings. All of these resources are openly licensed as CC- the research students to continue to focus on the important BY, which means they can be reused, revised, redistributed, project and supported them to forge forward in the quest to retained, and remixed so long as the authors of the material find ways AI can improve the quality of human life. are credited. The materials can be accessed online at https:// Toby the robot, when Phase 2 is finished will have the ability to pressbooks.bccampus.ca/businesscommsooc/ be remotely mobile in areas where human intervention may not be possible and perform many tasks within high risk environments, such as health practitioners being able to care for patients without being in the room of someone infected with COVID-19 and could assist in sanitizing hospital rooms or other faculties thereby reducing the risk of exposure to viruses or other toxic agents. Dr. Sahil states “to continue the project objectives, we decided to work remotely by connecting Toby to the cloud while we completed the programing, which enable the work to continue without students having to gather together during the acute stage of the pandemic”. Once Toby reached the stage where testing became necessary, the team gathered in Nicholas’s garage, maintaining social distances and COVID-19 protocols, Principles for Responsible Management Education they were able to test and edit the programming to achieve a On Friday July 17, the School of Business submitted its better result. registration application to the PRME (Principles for Responsible After hours of work over many weeks in the garage, the team Management Education) Secretariat. I am pleased to achieved 80% completion of Phase 2 which includes: Voice announce that on Wednesday July 22, the PRME Steering Recognition, Facial Recognition, ability to recognize an object Committee and Secretariat welcomed the KPU School of and pick-up it up. Please visit the video link for a Business as a signatory to the Principles for Responsible demonstration: Management Education (PRME). Video link: https://youtu.be/RZLd1dcpOyo The Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) is a United Nations-supported initiative that supports business and management schools around the globe to provide future leaders with the skills needed to balance economic and sustainability goals. https://www.unprme.org/

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The School of Business joins 800 leading business and management schools from more than 90 countries who have signed a letter of commitment to advancing the PRME Six Principles while working towards promoting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Working through the Six Principles, the School of Business aims to provide our current students and society’s future leaders with the skills needed to balance economic and sustainability goals by using the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN Global Compact as a framework for student and program learning outcomes development. We look forward to implementing the Principles for administrators, instructional designers, and researchers who Responsible Management Education, reporting progress to our all champion the both open educator and UNESCO's stakeholders, and exchanging effective practices related to Sustainable Development Goals. these Principles with other academic institutions. More specific Throughout the summer 2020 term, Andrea Niosi, participated details about our PRME initiative will be coming to our AGM on in KPU's UN SDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship and teamed up August 25. with educators from Montgomery College and Maricopa OUR AMAZING FACULTY Community College. The three faculty - one from marketing, one from art history, and one from mathematics - were tasked Melissa Ashman, Applied Communications with having to design 3 renewable assignments that supported Melissa Ashman, Applied Communications Instructor SDG #4 (Quality Education). In the end, they developed a completed her Certificate in Online Learning from VCC. This Visual, Data, and Cultural Analysis and Literacy framework that three course (9 credit) program builds on the Provincial could be used across all 3 disciplines where multiple Instructor's Diploma Program and will be an asset to KPU, the assignments could be developed capable of integrating SDG #5 School of Business and her students. (Gender Equality), #13 (Climate Action), #16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions), #12 Responsible Consumption and John Shepard, Rotary Update Production), and #10 (Reduced Inequalities). The Canadian Red Cross Society has approved $21,800 in funds from Canada's Emergency Community Support Fund towards the North Delta Rotary Club's Starfish Pack project. John Shepherd, Accounting Faculty member and Rotarian is helping to explore whether they could supply food, via this funding source, to the North Delta branch of the Surrey Food Bank. If so, they will put in an additional application for $25,000.

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS: Amir Azaron, Business and Quantitative Methods Amir Azaron (BUQU Faculty) published a paper in International On August 31, Andrea Niosi was Journal of Production Research (Taylor & Francis) invited to present an Introduction to Azaron, A., Venkatadri, U., Farhang Doost, A. (2020). Designing Open Pedagogy Workshop as part of profitable and responsive supply chains under uncertainty. the Open Education Influencer International Journal of Production Research. http:// Program at Nelson Mandela dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2020.1785036 University. Andrea Niosi, Marketing The workshop focused on the what, On June 29th, Andrea Niosi (Marketing) presented on Open how, and why of open pedagogy and Pedagogy at the Open Education For a Better World virtual provided specific examples of how conference which normally takes place in Vipava, Slovenia. Andrea and other KPU educators Last year, Andrea presented her Open Textbook project on have adopted open pedagogy in their Consumer Behaviour at the conference, and this year, as a curriculum. Mentor, she spoke to different ways educators can leverage their work in open education to create a rich learning experience for students. This presentation was recorded for (and attended by) a global audience of educators, 35 School of Business cont’d

ANNUAL REPORT LETTER FROM THE DEAN: documenting the School of Business’ processes to ensure quality education. Our re-accreditation last year was a School of Business Update significant accomplishment, this year we attended to data Academic Year 2019/2020 collection and process adjustment as part of ongoing effort to meet our ACBSP obligations in spite of the extra challenges we face. The tragic events in North America have raised our Dear School of Business, awareness about inequalities and racial divides. Beginning fall 2020 an important initiative in the School of Business will place When reflecting back on the past year, I would be remiss if I us ahead of the curve to engage and reflect on inclusivity and did not mention the enormity of the impact of the COVID-19 diversity to genuinely make necessary and positive changes Pandemic and its effect on the daily lives of all those who work within our school. and study at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Our truly amazing faculty of the School of Business have As of March 2020, the landscape of post-secondary education managed to author publications and open resource textbooks, has dramatically changed. Not only did all courses have to attain new credentials, support student focused initiatives and shift to online delivery, but our international students suddenly help strengthen our connection with industry for all programs, found themselves needing to decide whether to stay in Canada and simultaneously becoming experts in online course or return home, before the choice was made on their behalf. delivery. We have one of our own in an associate dean role, Many more questions needed to be answered. Could they Don Reddick, and soon to welcome another internal faculty continue their studies abroad? Do our domestic students have member who will take on an interim associate dean role Fall the ability to study from home? Many of us faced personal 2020. Although we will have said goodbye to two Associate challenges such as family members losing jobs, unexpected Deans over the past year, Loren Coutts and Sharon Leitch, we financial strains, a shift to working from home in isolation, our have welcomed Heather Harrison to the team as an interim colleagues or their loved ones infected with the virus, Associate Dean. Our advising and staff team are led by our separation of families, friends and the loss of social or work hard working and optimistic Divisional Business Manager, networks we once enjoyed. It has been a stressful time for Travis Higo, who’s positive energy keeps the staff team feeling everyone. engaged. And our staff team, who are integral to the day to I want to thank each and every one of you for your resilience, day functioning in our School, have been successful in meeting call to action and continued dedication to the KPU School of operational efficiency goals despite the disruptive pandemic Business’ education quality and compassion for students, and have continued to make a positive difference every day for which never waned despite the added pandemic pressures and our students, faculty and leadership team. the sudden changes you all endured, both at work and at I want to thank the entire School of Business for making what home. Although the past five months have been difficult, I seemed like an insurmountable obstacle to deliver quality know once we are on the other side of this history in the education and provide a positive learning experience for our making, we will all be proud of the what we have collectively students during such tumultuous times seem possible. We achieved. have all learned a great deal this year which I believe will only Through all the recent challenges, the School of Business still serve to catapult us forward towards meeting our own accomplished a great deal over the past year. Becoming a academic department goals and support our students/ PRME signatory and joining 800 Business Schools across the graduates in meeting their academic goals too. globe to enhance sustainable and ethical business leadership through business education, relaunching a substantially revised Public Relations Program, launching fall 2020, and a Sincerely, revised Human Resource Management Post Baccalaureate poised for Spring 2021. The School of Business completed all but one program review, soon to be all programs by the end of Stephanie Howes, Dean 2020. Our ACBSP accreditation has also played a key role in KPU School of Business

Please click on this link for the KPU School of Business Annual Report.

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NEWS  The Teaching & Learning Commons created a music video which has hit over 1200 views. Watch “TLC” here!  Throughout the Summer term the Teaching & Learning Commons offered over 34 workshops with our most FALL WORKSHOPS successful being the Level Up: Learn to Teach Online We have a full slate of workshops and other professional which is a week-long intensive course designed and development opportunities available for faculty this Fall. See launched to support faculty as they plan to teach this below for upcoming offerings or visit: https://tlevents.kpu.ca/ summer and beyond. This summer we had 7 cohorts Gradebook Basics Level Up: Learn to Teach Online comprised of 264 faculty members who successfully Sept. 14, 10 – 11 AM Sept. 18, 21, 23, 28, 30, 9 – 10:30 AM completed the program. Four additional cohorts will be Sept. 18, 22, 24, 29, Oct 1, 1 – 2:30 PM completing the course this Fall term. Moodle Quiz Basics Gradebook Advanced Sept. 14, 1 - 2 PM Sept. 21, 10 – 11 AM  The Learning Technologies team closed 2210 support Sept. 25, 1 – 2 PM Kaltura 3-Part Series Gradebook Basics tickets this summer, compared against 680 tickets last Sept. 14,16,21, 11 AM – 12:15 PM Sept. 14, 10 – 11 AM summer (an increase of 325%). Sept, 22, 2 – 3 PM Moodle Quiz Advanced Muddling Through Moodle 101  Support for synchronous video tools has expanded with Sept. 17, 10 – 11 AM Sept 25, Oct 2 & 9, 10 – 11 AM Zoom soon to join BigBlueButton and MS Teams as Library & OER Drop In Kaltura Session 3 options for teaching and learning. Sept. 18, 10 – 11 AM Sept. 29, 1 – 2:15 PM  PebblePad is here! PebblePad is a learning journey BLOG POSTS (ePortfolio) platform that helps students collect evidence of their learning and reflect on their experiences to Our blog “Friday Morning Coffee” has been updated weekly prepare them to articulate what they know and how they with posts by members of the Teaching & Learning Commons know it. Create an account at https://app.pebblepad.ca/ team. Recent posts include: login/kpu (log in with banner number and password).  Rising to the challenge: Reflections on “Levelling Up” (L. Gedak & L. Waddington)  We continue to address the teaching & learning software  Video production at home: Setting up a studio (G. Cobb) and device needs of faculty.  Building bridges: Highlights from the OLC Innovate 2020 conference (L.  Welcome Urooj Nizami who joined KPU as our Open Gedak, G. Cobb, & R. Jhangiani) Education Strategist in early August.  Belonging (S. Takacs)  Faculty spotlight: Emma Baggott (L. Gedak)  Season 3 of Beyond the Chalkboard podcast will be  An urgency of teachers: The work of critical digital pedagogy (S. Takacs & launched soon. L. Marom)  The Commons purchased a group package for the virtual  A statement of values from the Teaching & Learning Commons team (R. OLC Innovate conference that took place from June 15-25. Jhangiani) This year we had over 70+ members of the KPU  Midterm observations on online teaching (L. Marom) community register and attend.  Frameworks, approaches, and models – oh my! (L. Gedak & L. Waddington)  Teaching & Learning Commons has also purchased an FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES unlimited group package for the OLC Accelerate 2020 conference, which will run from Nov 9-18 and feature over 0.6% Faculty Professional Development Fund 350 presentations, a virtual exhibit hall, networking oppor Faculty PD Fund applications involving research, conference -tunities, and more. In order to be registered for OLC Accel presentations, enhancing teaching and learning as well as -erate 2020 please send an email to [email protected] support for tuition are some areas considered for funding. The  Thank you to our outgoing Educational Consultants Lesley next application deadline is October 1, 2020. The ROMEO McCannell and Kristie Dukewich for their work and time at application is now open to accept applications. The next the Commons and welcome to our new cohort of deadline for submission will be October 1. LEARN MORE Educational Consultants joining us this fall: Gillian Sudlow Open Educational Resources (OER) Grants (ACP) Laurel Tien (NURS), Nishan Perera (Marketing), Jennifer Hardwick (ENGL), Seanna Takacs (Access. Srvces), The Open Educational Resources (OER) Grant program Christina Page (Learning Centres), Gordon Cobb (MUSI) provides funding and staff support to KPU faculty members interested in creating, adapting, and adopting OER (or  KPU has joined the Open Education Network as its first engaging in other forms of Open Pedagogy). Three levels of Canadian member. OER Grants are offered:  Four issues of the monthly Teaching Learning Commons 1. OER Adoption Grant newsletter were published during the Summer term 2. OER Adaptation Grant August 2020, July 2020 (featuring Emma Baggott), June 3. OER Creation Grant 2020, and May 2020. 37 Faculty of Trades and Technology

INTRODUCTION: On behalf of the Faculty of Trades and Technology, I’m pleased to provide in this Board Report updates and examples of the tremendous efforts by the faculty and staff who accepted the challenges of staying healthy while instructing and supporting our students over the past several months. You will see in the photos and information that our time and energy was centered on outfitting dozens of classrooms, shops and labs according to the stated protocols in over 40 Program / Course Health & Safety Forms. Among the last three classes which were placed on pause in March, the good news is the Welding Foundation class re-started on August 24, and a Welding A class and a Welding B class will re-start on October 13. In the meantime, 100’s of new students started in July, August and September – more than 90% of these students are learning in a hybrid model of instruction. A hybrid model is a mix of online and on-campus. The on-campus instruction is vital as prescribed by either the Industry Training Authority (Apprenticeship) or in the course outlines. STUDENT ENGAGEMENT: Congratulations to the Dean’s award recipients for July and August. Our students persevered and thrived in some very trying circumstances.

Program Recipient

Electrical - Foundation Matthew Danyliuk

Electrical Level 4 Garrett Gardner Electrical Level 4 Ken Rarama Electrical Level 4 Joseph Stroud Millwright – Foundation Jaden Rempel Millwright - Youth Train in Trades Parker McLean Parts, Warehousing, Logistics and Distribution - Foundation Sandra Sayer Plumbing - Youth Train in Trades Manjot Tatla Plumbing - Youth Train in Trades Jordan Udy Plumbing and Piping - Foundation Jordan Lewis Welding Level B Viggo Vidanes

ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT As of September, all our programs are underway. Here are the start-back dates for the last three programs, which had been placed on pause in March: Welding Foundation re-started on August 24, and we are combining Welding Level A and Welding Level B classes for a re-start date of October 13. ONLINE DELIVERY Most KPU Faculty of Trades programs have transitioned to an online or hybrid model. The need for in-shop delivery is a function of the amount of practical hours needed for the successful completion of the program.

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As programs re-started, we decided to keep class sizes smaller to meet our community health responsibility. For example, the normal maximum student capacity in the welding shop is 64 students. For the time being, we have set the limit to 32 students at onetime in the welding shop. In most of the other shops, class sizes or lab sizes are eight students.

Program Protocol Upgrades & Safety Measures Appliance Service Hybrid Automotive Foundation Hybrid

Automotive Apprenticeship Hybrid Carpentry Foundation Hybrid Carpentry Apprenticeship Hybrid Electrical Foundation Hybrid Electrical Apprenticeship Online

Farrier Science Hybrid Masonry Foundation Delivered in Pitt Meadow – In -class/In-shop Mechatronics and Advanced Manufacturing Technology Hybrid Millwright/Industrial Mechanic Foundation Hybrid Millwright/Industrial Mechanic Apprenticeship Hybrid

Parts and Warehousing Foundation Online Parts and Warehousing Apprenticeship Online Plumbing and Piping Foundation Hybrid Plumbing Apprenticeship Hybrid Welding Delivered on campus due to hands-on nature of the program

NEW PROGRAMS, POLICIES AND INITIATIVES

Protocol Upgrades & Program Safety Measures Off Campus Program Protocol Upgrades & Safety Measures Appliance Service Garibaldi High School Automotive Pitt Meadows High School Carpentry Shop/Classroom upgraded for safety and Panorama Secondary Electrical physical distancing. Shops upgraded for Squamish Trades Centre Farrier Science safety and physical dis- Squamish Trades Centre Masonry tancing for practical Mechatronics and Advanced Manu- hours. facturing Technology Millwright/Industrial Mechanic Plumbing and Piping Welding N/A Program Delivered Parts and Warehousing Online

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Work continues on our campus:  The safety protocols of our shops have been updated to run the practical portions of Faculty of Trades and Technology programs.  Upgrades to the Millwright shops.

 Upgrades and Site Restoration – The paddock for the Farrier Barn has been updated in preparation for the new program intake. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION  We have been approved to  Shipping containers for appliance storage purchase 20 different pieces of APPLIANCE equipment and/or trainers, for  Lock ring refrigeration tool accessory various trades departments, with  CUDA hot water parts washer AUTOMOTIVE a revised budget of $273,000. To  Electromagnetism trainers date, six out of 20 web requisitions have been created ELECTRICAL  Electric high voltage switch gear trainer for the purchase of these items. FARRIER  Complete horse skeleton See the list of approved items  Ciros simulation software 10 educational & 1 studio licenses  Eight document cameras are  Easy port interface for Ciros and Mech. Stations MECHATRONICS here at KPU Tech  HMI stands for process trainers  Process automation sim boxes

MILLWRIGHT  Vibration and Balancing Tester

 Rheem Furnace #4890330  Weather King Furnace #4801500  Reznor unit heater #4902400  Schwank tube heater # 4950150 PLUMBING  45-80K TS-142JZ  1-7/8" S-hooks (box of 25)  Box of 50' hanging chain  Base boards for hydronic lab

TRADES  2x Portable Document Cameras

 Shop Propane forklift 3-stage with side shift  Portable pipe/tube prep machine & tools WELDING  LTA 2.0 Telescopic arm (counter wgt)  8" connector to duct extraction arm  Flexible duct

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Information Sessions:

Subject Date Automotive Service Technician 16-June-20 Certificate in Farrier Science 17-Jun-20 Millwright/Industrial Mechanic 15-Jul-20 Electrical 23-Jun-20 Millwright/Industrial Mechanic 15-Jul-20 Parts, Warehousing, Logistics and Distribution 28-Jul-20  We had a visit from Tamara Jansen, MP (Cloverdale – Langley) on our campus on July 23, 2020.  A program profile for KPU’s Mechatronics Program was featured in Education for Employment’s most recent episode. This magazine is produced by Colleges and Institutes Canada for distribution to subscribed readers include high schools across the country

EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT & INNOVATION  Our Plumbing department initiated a program to build light boards to help support online student engagement for the faculty as a whole.  Emma Baggott (Electrical) was featured as part of the Faculty Spotlight in the July Teaching and Learning Commons Newsletter. Find the article here: https://wordpress.kpu.ca/tlcommons/faculty- spotlight-emma-baggott/ Capacity Building As instructors pivoted to online, we saw new levels of engagement and interaction among instructors.  Cross-department support and development of best practices for teaching and transitioning to online instruction.  Development of the hybrid model of online and in-shop instruction  KFA, BCGEU, and Administration collaboration with safety protocol implementation for on-campus instruction.  Developing Program/Course Health and Safety forms for each department and implementing standardized health and safety practices.  Instructors are adapting and becoming skilled in utilizing online technology to train trades students and apprentices.

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Keeping the Library Open During Pandemic Times  Student Laptop lending has continued throughout the summer and is now fulfilling requests for the fall semester.  KPU Library has been open throughout the pandemic. We This service has been well received, with the Remote reduced our hours in order to operate on all four Learning Survey Report documenting that 86% of students campuses safely with staff who were able to participate in who used the service responded as being ‘Somewhat or a schedule that kept the doors open for students who very satisfied’. As of September 8, we have already needed access to library computers and study space. We received 90 requests for the fall semester, and have continue to review our hours to balance student demand received 356 total requests since its inception. with fiscal responsibility. Additionally, laptops were circulated to students and faculty, and Teaching and Remote chat usage is up. Way up! Learning’s equipment was made available through our ““I really appreciate the quick response time and the services. KPU cards for new students and employees were feeling that I am not being a burden when asking safely issued. After safety protocols were put in place, questions. I couldn’t be where I am in my studies books were made available by request and appointment today it if were not for this service and for that I pick-up. thank you!” Kwantlen Polytechnic University  Our two Library Resources Technicians did an outstanding Student” –from the recently published AskAway job of pivoting our processes weekly and sometimes daily Actions & Achievements 2019. in response to COVID-19 to keep our students and  AskAway is B.C.’s collaborative chat reference service for employees safe. Our supervisors, Technical Services post-secondary libraries and their users. KPU Librarians Coordinator, and Surrey’s Associate Supervisor responded help staff this chat alongside our colleagues in B.C. and the to all the HR requirements and were busier than ever, Yukon. We also use the AskAway platform as a primary keeping the libraries running and physical spaces mode of contact during COVID, encouraging its use as our compliant; the ordering, receiving, cataloguing and virtual research help desk. AskAway is hosted by the B.C. collections management ongoing; and their staff together Electronic Library Network (BC ELN), and they report that yet apart. Staff took up the many challenges and were the usage of the service between this May to August was flexible in both - on site and at-home work. Librarians well-positioned to meet a 90% increase in activity. pivoted to entirely online services, including research assistance and instruction and are planning how to deliver KPU Librarians or Videographers? face to face support when the time is right. Our  As with the rest of the KPU community, we have had to Administrative Assistant efficiently worked on everyone’s modify the ways we connect and convey information to behalf from home. our students. Librarians have been hard at work producing  I have always been very proud of my library colleagues for videos, instructing viewers on topics such as navigating their outstanding contributions to KPU but during COVID- the library’s research resources and searching specific 19 they have gone to the next level! databases, and even creating course-specific content. Many of our video tutorials can be found at https://  libguides.kpu.ca/lib-tutorials and our collection grows New library services to support our users weekly!  One of our newest services, Link.Scan.Open., launched in July. Designed to help alleviate the absence of our Course Reserve Process during COVID, LSO provides contactless service for KPU instructors to request assistance for online access to course readings from the library’s collection. Access comes in the form of links to integrate into course outlines or assignments, PDF scans of print material from the library’s physical collection, or assistance finding open educational resources. There have been 70 requests from KPU instructors thus far and a great amount of activity leading up to the start of the fall semester. Library staff member Vicki Effertz deserves particular attention for her hard work and efforts, as she has been the primary point of contact and provider of this service.

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Summer reading with the KPU Community New e-resources  KPU Reads normally brings the KPU community together The library has new e-resources to help support our students’ to read and discuss one book. This year we, of course, had online research activity. We’ve subscribed to Fairchild Interior to take a different approach! KPU Reads went fully online Design Library, which provides access to several required and encouraged the KPU community to submit their textbooks and ebooks to some of KPU’s interior design reading recommendations and their thoughts about what courses. We’ve also purchased a year’s access to JOVE they were currently reading. We compiled the Education: Biology Core and Biology Lab Manual, which recommendations onto our site to inspire some summer provides video content that covers the same material as reading and used the hashtag #KPUKeepsConnected. We popular required textbooks. Providing access to all of these got some wonderful reading recommendations! resources means we can substantially help reduce our students’ textbook costs!

In addition, we’ve subscribed to PrepSTEP, which provides practice tests and other learning support materials for standardized tests such as NCLEX, IELTS, TOEFL, LSAT, MCAT, GRE, and the RCMP Aptitude Test, as well as to the Vancouver Sun Historical Archive, which grants access to the archival articles of the Vancouver Sun from 1912- 2010 and complements our Vancouver Sun Recent Archive.

New academic integrity resource goes live On September 9, we were able to fully launch our new open resource, Academic Integrity. Fully available online, it was written and designed by our Academic Integrity Liaison Librarian, Ulrike Kestler, to be easily integrated into course activities and readings by our instructors. It also has an optional Academic Integrity recognition badge that students can earn after enrolling and successfully completing quizzes in our Academic Integrity Moodle Course. This resource will replace our popular Plagiarism Tutorial and as of September 16 has already seen 1320 students registered with 825 completing the badge. Academic Integrity boasts enhanced content, interactive activities, and a commitment to helping our students understand the importance of adhering to academic integrity principles and developing awareness around concepts such as plagiarism and citation.

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STUDENTS/ALUMNI:  Josh Groom, 4th Year Project: Coco Bark – Winner, Applied Arts Student Award (Packaging Design Category) Graphic Design for Marketing students win industry-recognized awards Graphic Design for Marketing students were recognized for a number of provincial and national scholarships and awards by notable design organizations this summer.

 Carmen Cheung, 4th Year Project: Soul Soup – Winner, 2020 GDC BC Salazar Award (Print Category)

 Arden Leidl, 4th Year Project: Marmitts – Winner, Applied Arts Student Award (Packaging Design Category)

 Linda Luu, 2020 Grad Project: Ugly Dumpling – Winner, 2020 GDC BC Salazar Award (Branding Category)

Interior Design graduate accepted into SFU's EMBA Indigenous  Paris Summers, 4th Year Project: Residential School Business Leadership Program Infographic Booklet – Winner, GDC Cheryl Lynn Rutledge Northern Indigenous Student Award ($1,000) Recent Interior Design graduate, Jade Crabbe, was accepted to SFU's EMBA Indigenous Business Leadership Program. This is  Liam Kennedy, 4th Year Project: The Runaways: the only accredited MBA program in North America addressing Residential School Booklet – Winner, GDC Foundation Ray Indigenous business, economic development and entre- Hrynkow Scholarship ($1,000); Winner, Applied Arts preneurship. The program is primarily for mid-career Student Awards (Editorial Design Category) Indigenous professionals.

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Recent Technical Apparel Design recognized at prestigious Product Design students reach final of Canadian car design international award, Core77 competition Riley Scott, a new graduate of the Technical Apparel Design Two Wilson School of Design students are vying for top spot in program received prestigious recognition for his capstone a competition to design Canada’s first zero-emission concept project, an innovative ski jacket that adapts to temperature car. Product design students Marie-Pier Alary and Bailee van and exertion levels. Riley was recognized at the Core77 Design Rikxoort are one of three teams (the only all-female team) to Awards 2020, an annual design contest that celebrates “the reach the second phase of Project Arrow, a competition richness of the design profession as well as the insight and launched by the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association perseverance of its practitioners.” The awards cover 18 of Canada (APMA). A jury will select winning designs as the distinct design disciplines and Scott was a student runner-up foundation for the development of a virtual or augmented for the Sports and Recreation Award. His jacket, STRATUS Ski reality concept vehicle and then ultimately a full-size concept Touring Mid-Layer, varies its insulation to the thermal needs of vehicle. The students focus was to design an accessible car for the user. Canadians from coast to coast. They also had to predict the needs of drivers and passengers in 2025, when more The STRATUS jacket is also sensitive to other context-specific autonomous cars are expected to be on the road. “We focused requirements for carrying a pack, for providing more trade- our concept on modularity. We believe that modularity is the tional vent zips that are usually absent in a mid-layer, for new luxury,” says Alary. “Canadians have multiple interests keeping sleeves in place with arm movements, and for packing and one car should be able to accommodate most of what the jacket when not in use. they do.” The team delivered the next portion of their project at the end of August and await results.

WSD/PROGRAM INITIATIVES: Graphic Design for Marketing welcomes new faculty The Graphic Design for Marketing program is pleased to welcome two new faculty to the team. Both Marga Lopez and Daniel Presnell come to WSD with extensive experience in the Graphic Design industry, and will both be teaching courses this Fall. Foundations in Design host virtual program orientation

The Foundations in Design program held an online orientation for the first time, to welcome new students. With classes having shifted online, the session was organized to introduce students to faculty, staff, and to engage them with an entertaining activity to kick off the new school year. The event was a success and we hope it serves as a starting point to foster a sense of community within this new cohort.

Fashion Design & Technology and Fashion Marketing co-host virtual orientations The Fashion Design & Technology and Fashion Marketing programs hosted a combined virtual orientation. Students were placed into groups of new students from both programs

45 Wilson School of Design cont’d and upper year classmates of both programs as well. Students Interior Design faculty co-authors published paper created introduction videos of themselves and then voted on Stephanie St Loe co-authors, “Self-Organising Floor Plans in the winners. Then, each program's new students broke off into Care Homes”. This paper presents and discusses an their own groups to discuss program specific questions and optimisation approach applied to spatial layouts in care home orientations. This collaborative approach proved very effective building design. With this study, the team introduces a method and will set students up for success in the coming academic for increasing the floor plan efficiency using a self-organising year. genetic algorithm, thus reducing energy consumption, Curbside pickup for student packages improving the wellbeing of residents and having an implicit On August 28th and September 1st the Fashion Design & impact on the costs of energy and health care. In order to find Technology program coordinator and program assistant an optimal spatial configuration, the group elaborated and facilitated safe, in-person curbside pick up of kits which tested a number of design criteria based on existing literature included supplies for their incoming students. Students reviews and interpreted through initial considerations of care expressed their appreciation for this kind gesture. home layouts. These were used as objectives in a Genetic Algorithm (GA) to evaluate the best design solution. The self- FACULTY RECOGNITION: organised floor plan is then used to run a final simulation to Interior Design faculty wins Canadian Museum Association's observe how residents could use the optimised spaces and to Award for Outstanding Achievement measure the improved efficiency of the new plans. The paper The exhibit Shadows, Strings, and Other Things: the Enchanting concludes with the discussion of the results and some Theatre of Puppets at the Museum of Anthropology won the considerations for future studies and experiments using Canadian Museum Association's Award for Outstanding emergence behaviour models to improve sustainable Achievement ("for temporary, permanent, or traveling development in design. exhibitions that effectively and distinctively contribute to COMMUNITY: increase public understanding"). Interior Design faculty member Erika Balcombe is very proud to have been a member Interior Design faculty support inner-city school of this team as illustrator, researcher and curatorial assistant Paola Gavilanez, one of the Interior Design program faculty under curator, Dr. Nicola Levell and designer, Skooker Broome. was made aware of a public plea from an inner-city teacher (in The show welcomed over 110,000 visitors and will continue to Greater Vancouver) for school supplies. The teacher was live past its 6 month run as a virtual reality experience (in looking for advice on fundraising in order to raise funds to progress). purchase classroom supplies (post-its, paper, markers, glue, fabric, etc). The teacher works in an inner-city school where parents lack the funds to provide necessary supplies to make and create during the school year. Paola led her faculty and jumped into action and collected left-over supplies from the Wilson School of Design such as cardboard, coloured paper, markers, fabric, notions and other small items students could use. The team was very happy to be able to contribute to help this teacher and his students.

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The following reports from Student Services and International  Meeting with Algonquin College Kuwait re partnership outline the key activities undertaken recently by the opportunities – August 12 departments under the Vice President, Students. It is with  Hanover Research meetings – September 18 great appreciation and acknowledgement of the hard work,  Attended Education Canada Network AGM as a member of dedication to student success and commitment of all staff the EdCan Council – September 23 serving KPU within this portfolio that the following reports are  presented. Meeting with Luminary Partners/IndigenousWorks re partnership opportunities – August 11 In addition, notable recent and upcoming virtual meetings  Actively participated in Perspectives on Reconciliation - A involving the Vice President, Students include: Virtual Convening - August 25  Re-appointed for a three-year term to the BC Council on  Senior Academic Administrators’ Forum (SAAF) executive Admissions and Transfer (BCCAT) meeting as vice chair – September 29  BC Association of Institutes and Universities (BCAIU)  Liaise with Elders Lekeyten and Cheryl Gabriel – ongoing Student Services meetings  Liaise with Maple Leaf School re return to campus  Chaired Learning Forward virtual summer meetings as planning (Richmond Campus) – ongoing President of this international organization  Liaise with Kwantlen Student Association (KSA) – ongoing  Interview of Elder and personal video messages for Upcoming meetings National Indigenous Peoples’ Day – June 21  Chaired Re-appointment Advisory Committee for the  Faculty of Education Support and Development (FESD) University Registrar Faculty Council meeting – October 6  Bringing Anti-Racism and Allyship to the business forefront  Student Affairs Virtual Town Hall – October 6 - Vancouver Board of Trade – June 18  Presenting to lower mainland K-12 Counsellors’  Participated inEdCan Network Editorial Board meeting conference – October 15  Met with Polytechnics Canada re Indigenous efforts at KPU  Indigenous Advisory Committee (IAC) meeting – late – July 22 October

STUDENT SERVICES boxes. Close to 400 boxes The following activities and programs are underway across were handed out with a Student Services in alignment with the University’s strategic warm, socially distanced, in- vision and goals. person greeting to students Fall New Student Orientation who chose to walk or drive by This semester, Orientation took on a whole new look in an the campus for their curbside effort to welcome and engage students who will mainly be welcome! learning online. Approximately 1,300 students tuned in for the Family Orientation Goes fall Live Virtual Orientations! The ‘New Student Orientation’ Virtual consisted of four different components – an online Moodle Family Orientation, usually course, two sessions of Virtual International Orientation, two hosting approximately 850 sessions of Live Virtual Orientation, and five Student attendees consisting of new Perspective Sessions delivered by our student staff. students and their supporters, Approximately 1200 new students have signed up for the moved to a live virtual event online Moodle course and 500 have completed 80% or more of in place of the usual three night, multi campus event. the online course to date. Orientation & Transitions Staff designed a program that Welcome Boxes included similar components of the traditional event, including To accompany their Orientation online experience, Orientation a keynote address by Dr. Candy Ho, a student experience & Transitions distributed a Welcome Box full of KPU items to panel, and informative presentations by campus experts. each new student. Over 1,600 boxes made their way to Approximately 2,400 people tuned in for the event! students, filled with a new student t-shirt and both fun and Co-op Work Placements This Summer new resources for our students. This was an awesome effort Nothing is slowing down our Co-op students! The Career across several divisions to design, order, fill, and ship the 47 Office of the Vice President, Students, cont’d

Development Centre had 39 Co-op placements over the intent of providing a wellness resource to support students, summer semester. To date, 42 Co-op students have secured staff and faculty. These classes have been very well received work terms for the fall, as many Co-op employers have and the department will now be expanding the virtual fitness extended their students’ summer employment. Over 280 job offerings to 5 classes per week. postings were made available to Co-op students during the Along with virtual fitness classes, the department has summer, and over 150 have been posted so far for the fall continued to post weekly online articles to the Sport & semester. Recreation At Home page. These resources provide guidance, Career Development Centre Adjustments motivation and information on fitness, recreation, nutrition In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and within bounds of and general wellbeing. CEWIL accreditation and Senate-approved Co-op programs, KPU Pride Advocacy Group emergency adjustments to Co-op requirements were adopted Pride flags were raised on all five KPU campuses in June, for summer and fall semesters to provide greater flexibility to commemorating Pride and showing support for the LGBTQ2+ employers posting Co-op jobs. These adjustments include: community. reduced required work term placement hours, accepting part- time roles and extending posting deadlines. KPU participated in the virtual Vancouver Pride Parade in August, with members of the KPU community sharing personal Employer Relations deployed an emergency email campaign to photos in a submission to the virtual parade. This submission over 5,500 past and present Co-op employers to promote can be viewed at https://www.kpu.ca/pride/events these work placement adjustments and partnered with Alumni Services for further promotion. Student Health Promotion Shows Pride Assessment & Testing Services (ATS) In consultation with the KPU Pride Advocacy Group, Student Health Promotion developed Pride at KPU, a campus-wide In order to continue our services to students who are not resource that aims to provide safer and more inclusive spaces studying remotely, Assessment & Testing Services has initiated for people of all genders and sexualities. The webpage remote/virtual admissions testing to support students in their contains useful LGBTQ2+ resources, terminology, events, FAQs application process. Our team employs Moodle and Big Blue and information on how to be an ally. Visit Pride at KPU at Button for Admissions Testing, and remote learning continues www.kpu.ca/pride to be the preferred choice for students. Supporting Students in Need Accessibility students are once again the focus for the fall term, as students connect with Accessibility Advisors and This summer, the Student Awards & Financial Assistance requests for both on campus and remote reader/scribe (SAFA) department received over 500 applications for full-time services emerge. Assessment & Testing Services is well bursaries. They were able to award a total of $306,412 to 175 positioned to meet these individual needs and looks forward students with high financial need. to working with KPU students once again. Through a series of virtual adjudication sessions, SAFA also KPU’s Threat Assessment Team (TAT) awarded 12 Spring Graduation Awards, totaling over $6,000; 33 Major Entrance Awards, totaling almost $200,000; and, 3 This past spring, a Steering Committee was formed to develop Fall Graduating Awards, totaling $1,500. KPU’s threat assessment processes. Outcomes from the Steering Committee now include the launching of a TAT to be Indigenous Online Orientation co-chaired by Catherine Dubé, Director, People Services and Indigenous Services for Students is thrilled to announce the Jennifer Jordan, Director, Student Rights & Responsibilities official launch of a new online orientation for Indigenous Office. students, the first for KPU. This new course was developed KPU has a well-established Behaviour Intervention Team (BIT) with Indigenous students to reflect their needs and that has operated successfully since 2011. However, the scope experiences. It provides information on transitioning to the of BIT is limited to students, most often working in a case University, resiliency and wellness, strategies for learning management role with those displaying challenging or online, connecting to culture and community, and links to threatening behaviours. KPU has not previously had a TAT, various student supports from advising to financial awards. which has been a significant gap in KPU’s response to risk and The course also features video clips from Indigenous students threat assessment. The TAT will have a much broader scope and faculty, interactive activities, and includes images of the yet narrower lens than BIT, specifically formed to assess risk Welcome You All signage in the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ dialect and the and threat to the entire KPU community. new Indigenous art installation that welcomes new students to Sport & Recreation KPU Langley. The Sport & Recreation department launched free, virtual fitness classes to the KPU community in the spring, with the 48 Office of the Vice President, Students, cont’d

Office of the Registrar more seamlessly align the recruitment, conversion and The following activities and programs are underway within the admission goals identified within Vision 2023 and the Office of the Registrar in alignment with the University’s Academic Plan. We look forward to working together and the strategic vision and goals. many opportunities this change will bring. Welcome to Fall 2020  The FSO team has created This Fall certainly looks different than the start of any other a video presentation for academic year that we have previously known. The Office of upcoming fall recruitment the Registrar team continues to carry out its work and deliver events, which will take the services to students remotely. We continue to find creative place of a real time virtual ways to carry out the essential work that we do, whether it is presentation thereby oversight for admission to KPU, facilitating online course allowing Recruiters to registration, conducting graduation clearances for our focus on one-one inter- graduation hopefuls – or embarking on new technology actions. This initiative will solutions that will continue to propel us forward. also provide high school counsellors variety when We are supporting an extended add/drop deadline for the Fall booking KPU present- term as well and an extended fee payment deadline – all to ations as their students provide students extra time in adjusting to remote learning won’t see the same and make allowances for them to amend their schedules as presentation twice. needed. Summer saw the very first fee payment deadline with no in-person payments! We have been amazed at how quickly  Five guided campus video tours were created to take the our students have adapted out of necessity during these place of in-person campus tours during COVID-19. Student challenging times. activity worksheets will accompany the videos for high school counsellors to use as a Career Life Exploration In June we published the University Calendar for the upcoming curriculum aid. 2020/21 academic year and we also entirely transformed course timetables for students in order to help provide them  Discovery Day planning is underway with a new clarity around the courses they are taking this fall – so it is personalized virtual option model. This will allow for clear to students whether their courses will be entirely remote, prospective students to choose a class that they want to face-to-face, or some type of hybrid. All that we do has been attend/discover as a guest participant. It has been well facilitated and supported by our team who continues to work received at the faculty-level. More to come on this! diligently from home. Applicant Conversion PUSH Future Students’ Office (FSO) In an effort to convert applicants who had not yet fully As of August 17th the domestic recruitment team within FSO committed to KPU for Fall 2020, FSO engaged in a calling has joined the ranks of the Office of the Registrar. campaign, reaching out with over 800 calls made over the past three months. In addition, FSO fielded over 2,600 phone calls The Future Students' Office at KPU has been instrumental in and facilitated 353 virtual appointment requests in an effort to developing and activating dynamic recruitment strategies to ensure support Fall conversion. support the university's domestic enrolment targets. MAP has had a facelift! Pairing domestic recruitment within the same portfolio as domestic Admissions will bring some synergies that will help us In June, the OReg and IT departments completed a months- long project to upgrade KPU’s Degree Works software (aka MAP – My Action Plan). The look and feel of the platform has been updated and with users now enjoying a more responsive dashboard. This major technical and functional upgrade was accomplished without any interruption of service to students. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ARUCC National Network

KPU has been selected as the only BC University, and one of 19 Canadian institutions to be part of a pilot project through the ARUCC National Network. ARUCC is the Association of Registrars of the Universities and Colleges of Canada, and the

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National Network will be the first Canadian online platform of FSO events its kind: a Pan-Canadian exchange network for official digitized  2 Capstone interview sessions for Grade 12 students post-secondary transcripts, credentials and data sharing (both inbound and out bound). It is essentially the creation of a  Landscape Horticulture presentation to Langley School secure, mobile credential "wallet" for students. The first use- District case KPU aims to participate in is the creation of aone-stop  SUCCESS virtual presentation for clients environment for students to share their KPU credentials -- digitally -- when and where they want to help them verify their  BC Post-Secondary Education Personation for Richmond graduation status, in real time. Having just been selected as a Library (virtual) pilot partner, there is much work to do, and in the coming  Information sessions for many academic areas weeks we will embark on the first step of the process which includes the necessary privacy and security assessments. Stay  Breaking Barriers (KPU hosted event): FSO along with tuned! ACA hosted a virtual event to over 60 community partners Ellucian Live (agencies). The goal was to promote KPU programs and explain the steps for their clients to access education This year’s in-person conference was transformed from a three through upgrading or the pathway. -day, in-person experience into an ongoing virtual program. As of June, OREG participants have continuous, on-demand KPU pays Tribute to our Spring Class of 2020 access to keynotes, sessions, and peer discussions until the As we were unable to gather in person, KPU celebrated the next “planned” in-person 2021 conference. It was an many achievements of our graduates through an online video innovative and engaging way to connect virtually with peers tribute in June. #ICYMI: kpu.ca/convocationtribute through facilitated chats, forums, one-to-one, and small group meetings. Ellucian also created interactive learning experiences so participants could take a deeper dive into Ellucian solutions. SEMM Forum University Registrar, Zena Mitchell, attended the recent Strategic Enrolment Marketing and Management Online Forum. The theme for this year’s conference was, “Attracting, engaging and supporting students: what you need to know now.” Sessions were timely and included topics such as:  Recruiting in a Pandemic: Higher Ed Enrolment in the “New Normal”  Recruiting and engaging students during the age of Zoom fatigue  Action plans for driving enrolment success We look forward to celebrating with all our 2020 grads during the upcoming Virtual Fall Convocation  Summer Melt 2020: 4 ways to leverage the gap year to boost retention and reduce recruitment efforts Details will be made available at kpu.ca/convocation  The Future of Work

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The following activities and programs are underway with KPU Support for International Students Travelling to Canada International in alignment with the University’s strategic vision  As the COVID-19 response continues to evolve around the and goals. world, KPU International is working diligently to support EXPANDED INTERNATIONAL STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES our international students in understanding their responsibilities regarding any potential travel to Canada. Academic Advising  A webpage and COVID-19 Guide for International Students  KPU International Advising has implemented caseload was developed to inform students on how to prepare for advising for over 900 new Fall 2020 students. In caseload arrival in Canada and expectations upon arrival. advising, students receive proactive one-on-one support from an assigned International Advisor who regularly  For the Fall 2020 semester, any students eligible to travel reaches out to them throughout their first semester. to Canada were asked to submit their travel and quarantine plans to KPU International. The quarantine  The KPU International Advising team has successfully plans are reviewed by staff to ensure that students are launched online extended drop-in sessions. Over 100 well prepared for their quarantine, ensuring they have international students can have their urgent questions made arrangements for accommodation, transportation, answered by an International Advisor each week during meals, toiletries and other essentials. Letters of support the registration period. are issued to students who complete this process.  In collaboration with Central Advising, the KPU  Students are required to check-in with KPU international International Advising team has reached out to about 200 upon arrival and check-in on a daily basis to ensure they current international students who are on academic are meeting quarantine requirements. standing (i.e., academic warning, continuing academic st warning, academic probation, and continuing academic  Since August 1 , KPU International has: probation) after the Summer 2020 semester to provide  Responded to over 3,000 email inquiries from guidance on how to improve their academic performance students travelling to Canada. and how to stay on track for their overall experience at KPU.  Issued support letters to approximately 400 students. Registration Webinars   The KPU International Advising team hosted live Successfully welcomed over 200 international registration webinars for the Fall 2020 semester where students who have travelled to Canada for the over 700 new international students attended and Fall 2020 semester. received specific academic advice related to their first  Confirmed that 36 students have completed the semester at KPU and their educational goals. 14-day quarantine period with no COVID-19 International Peer Mentorship Program symptoms.

 The Student Life team is INTERNATIONAL ADMISSIONS leading, with support from the international academic  KPU International has welcomed 894 new international advisors, a new peer students from 40 countries who will be studying online for mentorship program where Fall 2020. This is an increase of 65% in enrolment from student mentors help new Fall 2019. (Please note these numbers may change up to international students learn stable enrolment date later in September 2020). how to access different  Many of these students are studying in their home services at KPU, support country until travel restrictions are lifted. their transition to post- secondary studies, and INTERNATIONAL RECRUITMENT much more.  With travel restrictions still in place, the international  This pilot project was an initiative introduced in the recruitment team has continued to adapt its recruitment Summer 2020 semester. Given the success and strategies. Social media pages, email campaigns and appreciation by new students, the program will resume in virtual workshops are among some initiatives to increase the Fall 2020 semester. our digital presence and diversification.  In September, more than 35 new mentors were hired to  KPU International has been working on social media pages support the new international students, who are mostly specific to target markets. Below is an example ofthe studying online in their home countries. 51 Office of the Vice President, Students, cont’d

PARTNERSHIP ACTIVITIES KPU Joins UMAP  KPU International is proud to have facilitated KPU's inclusion into the University Mobility in Asia and the Pacific (UMAP) Consortium. Through UMAP, KPU students are now connected to study abroad opportunities at over 600 post-secondary institutions in 36 countries/territories in Asia and the Pacific Rim. KPU students will have more choices than ever for future study abroad experiences (post-pandemic). Instagram page that was set up in Portuguese to target Virtual Partner Café: LATAM & the Caribbean the Brazilian market. Similar approaches are being implemented in Spanish and Vietnamese markets as well.  KPU recently hosted a virtual café event for partners in Latin America and the Caribbean. Over 20 colleagues registered for this event from our partner institutions in Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Uruguay. It was such a pleasure to reconnect and find new and creative ways to support and work with one another! STUDY ABROAD Building Community on Social  Incoming and outgoing study abroad trips are currently on pause. The KPU International Study Abroad team continues to engage KPU students, both domestic and international, by posting study abroad alumni features, and #throwbacks to study abroad exchange trips. Students from Peru, Brazil, South Korea, and more, are all eager to share why KPU students should come visit their hometowns next!

KPU joins consortium to offer more international study opportunities

Kwantlen Polytechnic University is expanding international study opportunities for students by joining the University Mobility in Asia and the Pacific Consortium (UMAP). The consortium builds connections between 600 universities and colleges from 36 countries and territories across Asia and the Pacific Rim to support student exchanges, online joint classrooms and faculty connections. “This will enhance our learning communities’ access to quality international experiences while advancing KPU towards its mission of thinking and acting together to transform lives and empower positive change,” said Carole St. Laurent, associate vice-president, international, at KPU. By joining the consortium, KPU has substantially expanded the number of exchange destinations in Asia and the Pacific Rim. This year, there will be opportunities for two KPU students to visit any connected institution and for KPU to receive two students from UMAP institutions. These opportunities may expand in future years. The consortium also supports virtual exchanges, faculty research experiences, and scholarships in Japan and Taiwan for students. KPU’s membership was sponsored by the BC Council for International Education, a Crown corporation that supports international education strategy in the province in collaboration with the Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills and Training. Find more information here. 52 Office of the Vice President, External Affairs

Please find below the report from External Affairs, respectfully A significant shift for External Affairs occurred last month, submitted on behalf of my team. when the recruitment department of the Future Students’ Office moved to the Office of the Vice President, Students. The The Office of External Affairs continues its shift from in-person FSO Events and Communications team remains with External to virtual engagement activity, with the primary goal of Affairs, under the leadership of Kim McGill, whose first report maintaining our visibility across all our communities, while in this new capacity focuses on the huge amount of activity authentically engaging with our stakeholders at a time when being undertaken to produce KPU’s first virtual open house in everyone is sorting out their “pandemic pivots.” We continue early October. We are delighted to welcome Kim and her to support our community partners to best of our ability team to External Affairs and we look forward to “tuning in” to through virtual participation in events, meetings and Open House on October 3. sponsorships. GOVERNMENT RELATIONS AND COMMUNITY Our priority is to ensure that KPU remains top of mind with all ENGAGEMENT stakeholders, including prospective students. To that end, we Virtual activity includes: have – as you will see later in this report – purposefully maintained very active and prominent advertising and Advocacy planning and communications with our associations, marketing campaigns, and continue to employ strategic including: storytelling to build greater awareness of KPU as we continue  Universities Canada (GR and Communications groups) to deliver our mandate as a polytechnic university.  Colleges and Institutions Canada, GR network Our Alumni Affairs team has been tremendously busy, building  Polytechnics Canada, GR working group out new programs through which to engage our alumni, and to  BC Association of Institutes and Universities GR set the stage for an alumni-focused fundraising campaign in Committee the fall.  PSI Transit Coalition  Local MPs and MLAs The Office of Advancement continues to focus on donor Community Engagement stewardship, which is now being done remotely. This is a big shift for fundraisers, who generally do the majority of their  Richmond COVID-19 Community Task Force work face-to-face, and the Advancement team has been very  Langley City Economic Development Task Force creative in developing new ways to engage with donors and  Surrey Board of Trade, Delta Chamber of Commerce, prospective donors. Richmond Chamber of Commerce, Langley Chamber of Commerce, Cloverdale Board of Trade, South Surrey & Similarly, the KPU Foundation Board directors have embraced White Rock Chamber of Commerce, Surrey Firefighters’ the opportunity to reach out to donors by phone, email and e- Charitable Society, Langley Memorial Hospital Foundation card.

OFFICE OF ADVANCEMENT Since the last board report in June 2020, the Office of Advancement has raised $173,000. Our fiscal year-to-date total raised is $281,000. Last year’s fiscal year-to-date for the same period was $500,000. The vast majority of our fundraising activity occurs through the fall and winter months leading up to year-end. With a healthy donor prospect pipeline and our upcoming award re- newal period, there is still confidence in having a good year in fundraising, despite the economic impacts of COVID-19. The KPU Foundation held its annual general meeting on September 8 and welcomed two new directors: recently retired KPU Busi- ness School faculty member, Chamkaur Cheema and former KPU Alumni Association director and KPU Alumnus, Vikram Bubber. Outgoing directors include: Michael Atkinson, Mike Lee, Ranjit Sandhu, Praveen Vohora, and longstanding director, former Chair, former member of the Board of Governors and Honorary Degree recipient, Ken Hahn. We are extremely grateful for their many years of volunteer service and support of KPU and KPU students. Key priorities moving into the fall include continued efforts to engage with and steward donors in meaningful ways during a time when in-person events and face-to-face meetings are not possible. The Office of Advancement will be participating in its first #GivingTuesday fundraising campaign in December. Planning is currently underway for a campaign launch in late October.

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ALUMNI AFFAIRS Journalism in 2006. She is a reporter for the Globe and Mail, mostly focusing on stories of substance use, mental health, The Alumni Affairs team continues to successfully work drug policy and, lately, how these intersect with the COVID-19 remotely from home. We have established a good working pandemic. routine fully utilizing video conferencing and are meeting our goals of engaging alumni. In addition, the KPU Alumni Andrea’s reporting has earned her seven journalism awards, Association has successfully moved to a video conference including a 2017 Canadian Association of Journalists award for meeting platform. her reporting on Canada’s fentanyl crisis. ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MEETINGS Andrea will be recognized during the fall convocation virtual ceremony. Since the last Board of Governors report, the office has supported the following KPU Alumni Association board and committee meetings: Outstanding Young Alumni Award – Ayesha Khan  July 8, KPU Ring Program Task Force This award recognizes KPU alumni who are under 30 years of  July 9, Affinity Program RFT Task Force age at the time of nomination and who have demonstrated excellence professionally or through community service, while  July 14, Policy and Manual Review Task Force maintaining continued involvement with KPU. The KPU Alumni Association is very pleased to be recognizing Ayesha Khan at  July 21, KPUAA Board Social their annual general meeting on September 22.  July 27, Executive Committee Ayesha has embarked on relentless study, she is embedded in  August 12, KPU Ring Program Task Force community participation, personal sacrifice, tireless public service, and compassion towards society’s most vulnerable  August 17, Engagement Committee and marginalized groups and individuals.  August 18, Tribute Committee While still a university student, Ayesha was recognized by The In addition, the Alumni Association will hold its annual general World Economic Forum as a Global Shaper. Ayesha has meeting via Zoom on September 22. committed herself to non-profit leadership and then to formal labour organizing in one of North America’s largest trade

unions, the BCGEU. Her community service endeavours include 2020 ALUMNI AWARDS the WEF Global Shaper, United Nations Association in Canada, and the Kwantlen Public Interest Group. Distinguished Alumni Award – Andrea Woo

The KPU Alumni Association is delighted to announce that Andrea Woo will receive this year’s award. The Distinguished Alumni Award recognizes a KPU alumnus who has demonstrated excellence through their achievements.

Andrea graduated from KPU with a Bachelor Degree in Applied

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The Future Alumni Award - Emily Haugen ALUMNI SOCIAL MEDIA While pursuing her studies at KPU Emily Haugen co-founded KPU Alumni Facebook the KPU Case Analysis Network, served as the Indigenous Alumni Page likes as at Aug 31—733 Students representative on the KSA Board of Directors, and Page likes—net increase since Jun 1—7 volunteered as an O-Team Leader for KPU Orientation. These Total Impressions 260 are among many other activities Emily has undertaken while (posts appearing on a persons FB page) studying Marketing Management at KPU and achieving top Unique Users 238 grades. Engaged Users 18 Emily exemplifies the qualities this award seeks to recognize: (Liked, commented or shared) excellence in educational achievements and service to KPU and Most popular post: the community.

KPU Alumni Twitter KPU ALUMNI MAGAZINE Total followers 940 Planning for the 4th issue of the magazine is underway. This New followers since Jun 1 - 15 issue will be dedicated to KPU’s 40th Anniversary celebration Number of tweets 65 and will feature stories of 40 alumni as “Ones to Watch.” Tweet Impressions 18,997 Profile visits 223 ALUMNI BENEFITS Mentions 13 The Alumni Affairs office is pleased to have secured an Impressions 2,247 agreement with Advantage Alumni to move our current Engagements 34 Alumni Benefits program to a mobile app. We will begin build Most popular tweet: Recipi- Open Message subject: Send date: Opens ents: rate: Announcing the 2020 Future 2020-09-06 27359 8797 32.15% Alumni Award Recipient Post Co-op Job Opportuni- 2020-09-02 27415 9453 34.48% ties for Fall 2020 Deadline Extended Celebrate Our New Honor- 2020-08-04 27401 6399 23.35% ary Alumna Tell Us What Perks You 2020-07-24 27470 5249 19.11% Want, And Enter The Draw For A $150 Gift Celebrate the Class Of 2020; 2020-07-03 28680 8777 30.60% and Welcome a New Chan- cellor Stories and news from KPU 2020-06-06 27484 8318 30.26% Alumni

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LinkedIn Alumni Group Number of Members as of Aug 31 929 New Members since Jun 1 11 Number of posts 12

LinkedIn Alumni Page Number of members as at Aug 31 403 New members since Jun 1 24 Number of posts 7

MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS OVERALL Communications maintained a steady flow of news throughout the summer to keep our communities connected with the university’s activities while we remained committed to remote working and learning for the vast majority of our students and employees. Stories during this period included the announcements of the new chancellor, new governors and new vice president, finance. We also covered Pride, new partnerships, program launches, research and administrative responses to COVID-19, student, alumni and researcher successes, and new books written by instructors. Our content generated nearly 250,000 impressions on social media during this time period. Our web content production saw new or revised content prepared and launched for the Academic and Career Preparation department, plus the legal administrative assistant, farrier science, sustainable food systems and security, and public relations programs. Work continued to develop new or revised content for faculties of Trades and Technology, Science and Horticulture, and Business, as well as for the Future Students Office, Human Resources, KPU International, and a new research lab. The office has also provided communications support to a number of other areas of the university and coordinated the response to media inquiries, including multiple requests to discuss our fall activities and the impact of COVID on teaching and learning. Communication Initiatives:

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Media training, key message prep, response statements, and interview facilitation included these topics:

School of Business, fall semester plans, teaching during COVID-19, Pride, Farrier program, student design project, International partnership, researcher success, student support, mechatronics. KPU media coverage – June 5, 2020, to September 14, 2020 Facilitated media requests from and/or received coverage in: Aldergrove Star, CBC British Columbia, The Star, The Province, The Vancouver Sun, BC Business Magazine, Indigenous Lands and Resources, Peace Arch News, Surrey Now Leader, Delta Optimist, Yahoo! News Canada, The Rockwell Times, The Georgia Straight, The Daily Hive, Vancouver is Awesome, NDTV Food, Mother Jones, The Tyee, The Indo Canadian Voice, Red FM, North Delta Report- er, Academia Group, Education News Canada, Richmond News, Richmond Sentinel, Freshdaily, TKS Publisher – Teknoscience, Sa- lon.com, CBC.ca, Macleans, Greenhouse Canada, Cloverdale Reporter, Langley Advance Times, Better Aging, CKNW – Lynda Steele Show, CKNW – Simi Sara Show, Hortidaily, Lake Country Calendar, IPolitics, Ottawa Sun, Newmarkettoday, Targeted News Service, Reuters, Canada.com, National Observer, Maple Ridge News, The Lawyer’s Daily, CTV British Columbia, Global BC, Kenora Miner & News, Drishti Magazine, Country Life in BC, Victoria Times Colonist, El Grillo, StHeadline.com, Oak Bay News, Inside Higher Ed, Cas- tanet.net, Ottawa Citizen, Bowen Island Undercurrent, Link Newspaper, Study Finds, Visit Richmond BC, Stockwatch, Chilliwack Pro- gress, O Sul, MSN Canada, The Chronicle Herald, Canadian Beer News, Associated Press, The Runner, Vernon Morning Star, Edmon- ton Journal. The following graphic was created by our media analytic software and shows the overall media sentiment for this reporting period (June 5 – September 14). The chart is an aggregate measurement that includes everything from public service announcements, which are largely considered neutral, to large news and feature pieces. Media exposure during this period totaled 1,208 mentions, divided into 894 positive and 314 neutral mentions. (source: Meltwater). During this reporting period, Communications issued five media releases and web stories, and one video:  June 5 – 30: four media releases  July 1 – 31: six media releases and three web stories  August 1 – 31: five media releases and one web story  June 5 – 30: four media releases

The following is a list of the KPU media releases and the web stories issued during this reporting period. Media advisories and videos are not included.

September 2020

Sep 09 KPU researcher elected to the Royal Society of Canada

August 2020

Aug 31 Redesigned farrier program starts this fall at KPU

Aug 20 Third Age Learning at KPU moves online for Fall 2020

Aug 19 KPU joins consortium to offer more international study opportunities

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August 2020

Aug 07 KPU students reach final of Canadian car design competition

Aug 05 KPU Researcher awarded Canada Research Chair in South Asian Literary and Cultural Stud- ies

Aug 04 Former KPU instructor creates scholarship for interior design students

July 2020

Jul 30 KPU joins in virtual Pride celebrations

Jul 28 Two new appointments for Board of Governors at KPU

Jul 21 Tara Clowes appointed KPU’s Vice President, Finance

Jul 21 KPU partners with NEC to provide students with degree opportunities

Jul 16 New e-book tackles relationship violence pandemic

Jul 15 KPU instructor explores the Sikh view on happiness

Jul 13 ISFS Food Survey asks Canadians about access and concerns during pandemic

Jul 07 Safety paramount as essential in-person classes restart

Jul 06 KPU Honorary Alumna Award goes to Harriet Ronaghan

June 2020

Jun 26 KPU design grad wows judges at Core77 Awards

Jun 24 New KPU Program to Train the Next Wave of Communication Professionals

Jun 22 Kim Baird to become KPU’s next chancellor

Jun 17 Pandemic highlights challenge of accessing fresh vegetables for vulnerable communities

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EXPERIENCE Service Improvement: The Student Experience:  Canadian Campus Wellbeing Survey: Analysis for this survey, which was run primarily by researchers based at  Student Satisfaction Survey: This survey collects a broad UBC and focused on students’ mental and physical health range of information from students on their experience at and health-related service utilization, was recently KPU to identify areas for improvement. Dissemination of completed. A report was sent to the Manager, Sport, the 2019 results continues. Most recently, -full scale Recreation, & Health Promotion on July 17. KPU has been reports of the survey – with international/domestic and granted access to dashboards with the data. Faculty-based breakdowns – were completed and distributed across KPU service areas on June 25. In  School of Business Team Teaching Survey: This survey addition, three new infographics were completed: Course provided feedback from faculty members in the School of Access & Impacts, Student Experience, and Student Business on their interest in and experiences with team Choices & Goals. These are posted on OPA’s website. teaching. The survey closed on July 22 and a report was Consultations across KPU for the 2020 survey began on delivered to the Business Standing Committee on August 6. Education Quality on August 5.  Remote Learning Survey: This survey provided feedback Program Review: from students enrolled in Summer 2020 regarding their  Support is currently being provided to 32 programs (or remote learning experience that semester, including cluster of related programs) that are at various stages in platforms/technology used, preferences regarding (a) the program review process. synchronicity and assessments, service use, and suggestions for improvements. The survey was launched July 16 and closed on August 4. A tabular report was As of Sept 16, 2020 Number of Programs delivered to senior administrators on August 27, and an Phase 1: Self-Study 12 infographic report focusing on results from the open- Phase 2: External Review 4 ended questions was sent to senior administrators on Phase 3: Quality Assurance Plan 4 September 4 and has been posted on OPA’s webpage. Phase 4: Annual Follow-Up 12  BSN Program Completion Survey: This is an ongoing survey Total 32 for students about to graduate from the BSN program. Students provide feedback about the program including  their development of professional competencies and KPU’s Quality Assurance Process Audit (QAPA) took place overall satisfaction. The survey of the 2020 graduates in December 2020. (QAPA is a new accountability closed August 19. A report was provided to the program’s requirement that is overseen by the Degree Quality evaluation chair on August 26. Assessment Board (DQAB) Secretariat.). OPA is working is working on making changes as identified in KPU’s QAPA  BSN-AE Community Partners Survey: This is an ongoing action plan, in consultation with the Senate Standing survey that provides feedback from organizations with Committee on Program Review and other stakeholders, as which Bachelor of Science in Nursing-Advanced Entry appropriate. students are placed for practica, including the ease of Course Feedback: arranging the practica and students’ effectiveness within them. The survey closed on September 9. A report will be  Course Feedback surveys for Summer 2020, involving delivered to the program chair in September. approximately 875 sections, were successfully conducted; Course Feedback reports have been sent to instructors QUALITY and reports for probationary instructors have also been Student Success: sent to the Deans. Deans also received the 2019/20 AY  Conducting a study on of relation of entrance require- Course Feedback dashboard. ments and student performance in Business Graduate  The Fall 2020 Course Feedback project will be launched on Diploma and Post-baccalaureate programs. September 29 and the majority of the surveys will be  Tutor Navigator Surveys: A set of surveys will be launched conducted between November 8 and December 6. in September to assess the tutor navigator program, which Hold Each Other Responsible: hires senior students to provide support to students in  Senate Effectiveness Survey: This survey invited Senators ENGL 1100. More specifically, the surveys will provide and non-Senator members of Senate Committees or feedback on tutors’ access, helpfulness, and awareness, Standing Committees to provide their feedback on how interest, and demand from the perspective of relevant well Senate and its committees are functioning, how they students, instructors, and the tutors themselves. 72 Office of Associate Vice President, Planning and Accountability cont’d

could be improved, and what supports are needed for this that will meet the requirements for institutional reporting improvement. The survey was launched on May 4, and and analysis, including KPU’s business intelligence closed June 1. A report was delivered to the Senate Office dashboards. The data warehouse will replace various on June 23. existing sources of information and faster data extraction and preparation. Currently, the data elements are about  A progress report on VISION 2023 was produced and 85% complete and data validation is ongoing. presented to the Board Governance Committee on September 9.  Providing support to the project to implement a Customer Accountability to Our Partners: Relations Management (CRM) tool. OPA’s role is to ensure definitions of data elements reported in the CRM are  Currently working with KPU’s human resources office on consistent with definitions in institutional reports HRDB Data Collection required by the Post-Secondary generated by OPA. Employers Association, due at the end of August.  Prepared the Summer 2020 update of the Employee Accountability to Government: Dashboard.  Submitted the 2019-20 KPU Institutional Accountability Enrolment Management: Plan and Report to the Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills, & Training in mid-July.  Applicant Funnel dashboards: Applicant funnels for Fall 2020, Spring 2021and Summer 2021 are running currently.  Submitted the FY 2019/20 Contact Hour Activity Report to Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 are updated every Wednesday. the Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills, & Training in Summer 2021 is updated every other Wednesday. The mid-July. dashboards provide information on the number of  Submitted the cohort for the 2020 Baccalaureate applicants, and their conversion through each step in the Graduates Survey to BC Stats for the BC Student Outcomes application process to qualified, offered, admitted and Survey in July. ultimately enrolled. The dashboards also include information on country of origin of International  Submitted the cohort for the Adult Special Education- applicants. Labour Market Agreement for Persons with Disabilities (ASE-LMAPD) Outcomes Survey in July.  High School Applicant Dashboard: This provides information on high school applicants including high  In consultation with HR, prepared the HRDB Data school and contact information of applicants currently in submission required by the Post-Secondary Employers BC High Schools. The dashboard is updated every Friday Association in August. for Fall 2020 application cycle and is used by the Future Student’s Office in their efforts to convert applicants to INSTITUTIONAL PLANNING admitted and ultimately to enrolled students. Program Planning:  Updated the following dashboards: Midterm Enrolment  Studies the impact on student demand of modifying the Report for Summer 2020, weekly Interim Enrolment BA second language requirement on the Department of Reports for Fall 2020, Credentials Dashboard for Language and Cultures. AY2019/20.  Conducted a student demand analysis of IDEA courses.  Health Foundations Survey: This survey will be sent to all Integrated Planning: students enrolled or recently enrolled in the Health Foundations program in order to assess their intentions  Conducted additional enrolment monitoring and regarding completing the program, pursuing Nursing at projections to understand the impacts of COVID-19 on KPU or elsewhere, and where they plan to take their student recruitment and enrolment, including updating electives. enrolment estimates for Summer 2020 and Fall 2020., and using these to estimate tuition revenue.  Created new model to generate and compare various enrolment scenarios affecting budget projections for FY 2021/22 in terms of tuition revenue and instructional costs.  OPA Data Warehouse: To improve OPA’s ability to provide timely information, OPA is working with IT to createa comprehensive data warehouse. The purpose of the OPA Data Warehouse project is to have a single source of data 73 Office of Associate Vice President, Planning and Accountability cont’d

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KPU students reach final of Canadian car design competition

Kwantlen Polytechnic University students are vying for top spot in a competition to design Canada’s first zero-emission concept car.

Marie-Pier Alary and Bailee van Rikxoort, product design students in the Wilson School of Design at KPU, are one of three teams to reach the second phase of Project Arrow, a competition launched by the Automotive Parts Manufactures’ Association of Canada (APMA). A jury will select one or two designs – depending on whether they prefer the interior and exterior cars designs from the same team – as the foundation for the development of a virtual or augmented reality concept vehicle and then a full-size concept vehicle.

“The phase one of the project was intense, there was a lot to think about and we learned a lot about our own capabilities as we had to make the design entirely online because of the pandemic,” says Alary.

In phase two the KPU team worked with specialists from Autodesk, a design software company.

“Just this perk was worth every effort we did in phase one,” adds Alary.

Their team is the only all-female one in the competition and they weren’t car enthusiasts when they joined.

“We definitely anticipated challenges, for instance learning specialized 3D programs, however we quickly realized that car design is more familiar to us than we thought,” says van Rikxoort.

“A lot of what we learned in our prior years studying product design became very relevant in helping us design this car, such as elements of human factors, sustainability and production methods.”

The students wanted to design an accessible car for Canadians from coast to coast. They also had to predict the needs of drivers and passengers in 2025, when more autonomous cars are expected to be on the road.

“We focused our concept on modularity. We believe that modularity is the new luxury,” says Alary. “Canadians have multiple interests and one car should be able to accommodate most of what they do.”

The design has to include all aspects of the car.

“We’ve been able to dive into a vast array of design disciplines that go into producing a car, when typically, there would be a large team of designers focused on specific aspects,” says van Rikxoort.

“From learning what it takes to design an aerodynamic car, to figuring out how to design a modular yet aesthetically pleasing interior, it’s been fascinating to delve into the entire scope of automotive design.

“It has undoubtedly been a valuable opportunity to discover the areas of design we’re more passionate about.”

The team is being supported by KPU design instructor Dr. Victor Martinez, who has a background as a car designer. Although this is a concept car for the future, Martinez emphasizes the car will have to be manufactured with real materials.

“It’s not just a beautiful design, it has to have all the services and functions that you can do with the vehicle,” he says.

The duo says they couldn’t have come as far as they have without the help of their mentor.

“I don’t think that we would have been able to accomplish as much as we did without the help of Victor Martinez,” says Alary. “His ability to share with us his knowledge and experience of working in the automotive industry was invaluable when trying to understand the basics of car design and trying to be car designers ourselves.”

The team delivers the next portion of their project at the end of August.

Learn more about Project Arrow.